I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“...too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can… — Humphrey Cobb Copy Share Image
“Knowing and mastering the ability to stop yourself when you least want to, and letting silence speak instead of you, is the… — Aleksandar Sasha Trajkovski Copy Share Image
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
“...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion.… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Standing at the point where these photographs were taken, you’re immersed in the most unbelievable quiet. It’s like being at the bottom… — Tom Rob Smith Copy Share Image
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and… — Alphonse de Lamartine 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,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This silence here was somewhat heavier, lonelier than the preceding one. The former was an elevator silence; this one was a walking-through-the-woods-by-night… — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“If there is no phone, there is noise; but if there is a phone, there is silence—just as a crying, unruly baby… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Silence, the breath inside the body of what is, sings an unbroken tone struck in the key of nil. This endless untitled… — Karen Solie Copy Share Image
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly,… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
“Shortly after you have awakened, go into your sanctuary of silence. Get still and focused. Then ask yourself this question: ‘What would… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Who could have that that Silence could be so silent? Who could? For even thoughts They are so loud How can they… — Aaditya Balouria Copy Share Image
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
You wasted away cant come back today done lost your life cant think twice momma done told me that I was wrong… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
“I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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