“They drank with quiet determination, avoiding serious discussions of troubling news. In doing this they added a small, sullen silence to the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When I'm silent, it doesn't mean I have nothing to say. It just means I care enough not to hurt your feelings. — Maria Micah Rosales Copy Share Image
“There are many Beth's in the world, who and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully, that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I know that small-town silence, I'd run into it before, intangible as smoke and solid as stone. We honed it on the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Again there was silence. It was broken by the high trill of the telephone-bell. "There is one of our bacilli squeaking for… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Over past years we have seen unrelenting pressure from advocates of homosexuality to accept as normal what is not normal, and to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“By noon, silence arrives one last time, flowing into every space of her room. And before long, silence swallows sound and color… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
