That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade,… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“it’s in the silence that you can finally allow yourself to be seen, and it’s in the being seen that healing and… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer writes, “Real silence, real stillness, really holding one’s tongue comes only as the sober consequence of spiritual stillness.”6” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent when Marc did, as if… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.” — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
“Silence—true silence is universal. It is the profound stillness at the center of everything, at the center of every relationship—at the center… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Silence allows people to put thoughts into words. Some people might need several minutes to put thoughts into words. Silence may indicate… — Richard E. Dodge Copy Share Image
We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together. — Georgette Leblanc 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
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and… — Horace Copy Share Image
Best advice in two lines¦ Silence is the best answer for all questions. Smiling is the best reaction in all situations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons .… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
