“You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The longer I stand here, the louder the silence. I know that you're gone, but sometimes I swear that I hear your… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
The silence isn't so bad 'Til I look at my hands and feel sad 'Cause the spaces between my fingers Are right… — Owl City Copy Share Image
“In a world dominated by extroverts and exhibitionism, the quiet ones make the loudest impact with their silence – it's their superpower” — Brahmanand Savanth Copy Share Image
In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these… — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. You got to have… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“I went upstairs to my room. Momentarily I felt a sense of calm, almost acceptance. Rest beyond the river. I knew now… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Talks about the Self (Atma) and absolute Self (Parmatma) have no strain of worldly interactions in them. The Lord (Mahavira) has referred… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“A moment of silence, then Blake’s voice crackled through static, “Can’t—” The static sounded suspiciously like crinkling paper. “Hear—” More “static” then,… — A&E Kirk Copy Share Image
“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the rim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories—stories that almost always cast… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no:… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
“When I go to the bar, I never drink much. And to do that I avoid conversations, as silence reduces saliva and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“I listen to silence. And you have a lot to say. Although I haven't quite figured out what it is yet…I promise… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
