“Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“...And he shouldn't have talked to Mama in the hurtful ways he did neither. Calling her despicable names because she wanted to… — Lesley Kagen Copy Share Image
“It isn't the bloody weather!" I've shocked them into silence. I should stop. Apologize for my outburst. Make amends. Blame the climate.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C…… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, You Need To Be Alone. Sometimes Not Even Your Best Friend Need To Know. Sometimes You Just Need To Put Up… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It would be strange to live in a country where people were silent, passing one another in the street wordlessly, as if… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Silence THERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“I don't know when I've experienced a more massive silence than the one that followed my reading of his cheery epistle. Young… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Republicans' relationship with corporations is baffling. One minute, they are protecting corporations from what they envision as a marauding band of liberals.… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“The couple sat side by side on cushions on the floor, quietly eating breakfast from the low table. They munched in happy… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“He says, this silence of More's, it was never really silence, was it? It was loud with his treason; it was quibbling… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Hudson looks at me, waiting for what I was trying to say, but no matter how many times I try, the words… — Erica Cameron Copy Share Image
My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“Phooli invariably fell silent at the mention of her father – a desolate expression stealing across her childish face. Her silence, though… — Prachi Bhaumik Copy Share Image
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
![“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a28/frederick-buechner-883_beautiful_everybody-prays-whether-you-think-of-it_2419045.jpg)
