“Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“If you haven't guessed it already," I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, "I need you, too." "Is that… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“It is in the last step that one finds the unfathomable beginning; it is in the aloneness that one discovers himself never… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear… It is not training but love which impels them to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns.… — Jeff Myers Copy Share Image
“The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, "We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We are silent after hearing the Word because the Word is still speaking and dwelling within us. We are silent at the… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently,… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
“One feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold. It's the great, big, broad land 'way… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Very Nice to meet you all" They all floated in silence as if waiting on something when it dawned on me that… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A lot of black men get in desperate situations because they don't see any other avenues to make it. You make a… — Nate Dogg Copy Share Image
“The Little Mute Boy" The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply… — Silas House Copy Share Image
Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Beauty of silence is when you are at fault you must accept your mistake and be silent and if you are not… — Madhu Copy Share Image
And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. I prefer a kind… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn't cheap. At best, the price… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
