Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
There's more grief when we keep silent about issues that matter to the heart, in the society and the world at large. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers. — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
“Why should I keep holiday / When other men have none? / Why but because, when these are gay, / I sit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer.” — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and… — Caleb Deschanel Copy Share Image
Being silent is a great way to let people know they have done something wrong...! — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“people are standing in silent lines with their eyes half-open and their minds half-closed,” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed. — William Wetmore Story Copy Share Image
“Be extremely careful following the Masses. Much of the time the "M" is silent.” — Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino Copy Share Image
“My father and grandfather were noises now there are just silent and disappointed.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
