The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Its better to keep ones mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than open it and resolve all doubt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness. — Jeff Rich Copy Share Image
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The chamber grew suddenly silent, the only other person with first-hand knowledge of the matter staring pensively at the floor.” — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
“the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses… — John Newton Copy Share Image
“Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Autumn; Your hand becomes more tender And your mouth breathes peace on my lips - wonderful silence lies in our gestures.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
“Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says:… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“If you don't care, don't ask me how I am. Chances are, I don't care how you are, either. And it's not… — Tara Kelly Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are harder to cope with in silence. Once asked they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
“He is susceptible to conference room boredom and is incapable of talking to businessmen, particularly the run-of-the-mill variety. Nero is allergic to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well,… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
