Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Silence is so freaking loud when you are falling apart, you can literally hear your pieces falling on the ground.” — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Sometimes silence is the best way to shut down an awkward conversation. — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
“He waited for a time, knowing that no force could silence the crowd until it screamed out everything that had accumulated within… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there's not one minute of silence during the show. It's… — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“That's why people are speaking out, huh? Because it won't change if we don't say something.' 'Exactly. We can't be silent.' 'So,… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“They shared a moment of silence as Nobby ran this image in the cinema of his imagination and hastily consigned much of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Silence is the best answer of all questions and Smile is the best reaction in all situations. Unfortunately both never help in… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“But this is not eternity, it is condemnation. How opulent this silence is. It is the accumulation of centuries. It is the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The spirit world is able to get through to you easily when your mind is still and clear. Meditation is often referred… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. — Walter Elliot Copy Share Image
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If you don't walk away from someones silence, they just might speak. p.120” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose. — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
“The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening. — Margaret Landon Copy Share Image
“The strength of the song can be marked by the silence that surroundsit -- Zarost” — Greg Hamerton Copy Share Image
“And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.” — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“I won't say I told you so. But let's just take a moment of silence to think about the fact that I… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
