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
“Then the dog began to moan in old Salamano’s room, and through the sleep-bound house the little plaintive sound rose slowly, like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Keeping silence as valiance is good, but letting its good message reach to the minds of others is better and the best… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“I’m not like her. I don’t steal people.” Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing. The silence made Victoria bristle. “Well, I don’t.” — Claire Legrand Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Last night as your breathing settled into sleep what I heard was the half-forgotten sound, the velvet rush and hiss, the automatic… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“the book is silent so long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. he never interrupts you if you are… — Jāḥiẓ Copy Share Image
“There is immense power in silence, we must learn to be silent and not react to the different types of people we… — Donald Pillai Copy Share Image
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white… — Adrianne Brooks Copy Share Image
“Knock, Knock!' [Puck] called in a high, singsong voice. For a moment, silence. Then came a thud and a crash, as if… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Like all the other alphas in the room, they sat in complete stillness, erections aching against the front of their trousers. The” — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence… — Pink Copy Share Image
How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support.… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The trees breathe all the time and no one really notices. They take in the air we choke on. They live and… — Evan Roskos Copy Share Image
“Finally, a bold announcement across the screen declared The End. ... She resent it, The End. She resented the silence that followed… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the power of silence, when you don't know what someone is thinking, is when you should be most afraid! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute,… — Ronnie Barker Copy Share Image
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
“I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the… — Diana Peterfreund 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
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“There was only the two of them standing on top of the world, the rest of their lives waiting silently at their… — Jenny O'Brien Copy Share Image
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image