I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“SILENT, SHE WAITS FOR the sky to fall, standing upon an island of volcanic rock amidst a black sea. The long moonless… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“Everything was gone, the garden of wind and light, the Chrysalis, the Mother and her sister-crones, the rowan tree, everything. I was… — Debi Cimo Copy Share Image
Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet… — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking. Some things dwell in the dark: waiting…watching…haunting. Sometimes evil takes… — Barry Brickey Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“These were the mysteries of men, so baffling to women. Where silences could become a conjoining of paths. Where a handful of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“So many of the blemished didn’t know what to do with silence. Sunny’d learned that well enough at the coffee shop, where… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
“Most people have heard the phrase, ‘Silence is golden’; many would agree with it: people with screaming children running wild around the… — Natasha Preston Copy Share Image
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“She was not sure that her deafness had strengthened her character. She was not even sure she had met a challenge. A… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I sit alone No reason why No laugh no smile No need to cry I sit in silence awaiting my fate to… — Im Nothing Copy Share Image
There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner,… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
