The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Life is like playing “hide the key” with God. God has hidden the key and now it is up to us to… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“Everything stops in her and sinks into silence. She drives slowly, foggy pictures painted in her mind. She has to open a… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
“It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Speak less to people u love the most, ............ coz if they cannot understand ur silence They can never understand ur words. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I onda smo išli još dugo kroz šumu, ne govoreći ništa, ali ovaj put je u toj tišini bilo neke ljepote, bilo… — Miro Gavran Copy Share Image
“... if you can't be happy then be quiet!" frm "Silent Joe," by T Jefferson Parker." Silence is another form of lying."… — mark Jabbour Copy Share Image
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“I am weary of worldly gatherings, O Lord What pleasure in them, when the light in my heart is gone? From the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When there's nothing to argue about, Don't go trying to find stuff to touch on, leave it alone! ya know silence goes… — Michael Campbell Copy Share Image
“Silence is an intimate space where the boundaries between memory and reality dissolve. Let it be an invitation to introspection and to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“One can be rich by possessing many things, but that will ultimately be to befooling yourself. You come empty-handed into the world, and you… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our… — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg Copy Share Image
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The greatest patience is to keep silent while your heart marked with thousand scars, and the greatest power is to smile while… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Silence falls, pulsing with the truth of what I’ve learned and what Dean has yet to acknowledge. Our relationship, our love, cannot… — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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