Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you,… — Glenn Beck
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. — Napoleon Hill
The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership,… — Dan B. Allender
In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing… — Alejandro Amenabar
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music,… — Philip Pullman
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. — Pierre Bourdieu
They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. — Malala Yousafzai
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up… — Philip Larkin
I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat… — Liz Phair
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot, — John Cage
Silence is a protective coating over pain. — E. Lockhart
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or… — Peter Zumthor
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like… — Desmond Tutu
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you… — Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. — Faith Baldwin
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery… — Ken Grimwood
We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him… — Raniero Cantalamessa
If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject… — Sheila Walsh
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To… — William Wordsworth
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head… — David Foster Wallace

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