“For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound… — Philip Caveney Copy Share Image
“By quieting externally, you gain the space internally. Life is a flow - it goes on. Good or bad, it will always… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to… — Tyson Fury Copy Share Image
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the… — George Sand Copy Share Image
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory,… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
“Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
An act goes much farther than a word will ever travel. Even when someone is silent, in different situations this silence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear. I guess that’s why… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been in the room with the ABC executives when they watched David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' TV… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Under the guise of protecting people's health and safety, we have seen the erosion of our constitutional rights, and seen our justice… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence ("Roundness")” — Pierre Drieu la Rochelle Copy Share Image
“Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to… — Jacob deGrom Copy Share Image
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Silence wrapped around us as time itself held its breath, quietly coaxing us to that secret place of sighs and whispers where… — V.M.K. Fewings Copy Share Image
My favorite movie of all time is 'The Silence of the Lambs.' I think Hannibal Lecter is the scariest movie monster ever… — Kane Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know when you are in the peloton and you come near the Ventoux, nobody's speaking anymore, you can hear a fly,… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
I miss the sound of your voice.. and I miss the rush of your skin and I miss the still of the… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to… — Peter Tieryas Copy Share Image
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image