Silences Quotes
122 Silences quotes by 97 unique authors
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Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What a shock to our complacency-…
— Joel Beeke
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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
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To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to…
— Peter Senge
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I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims…
— Irshad Manji
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Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling…
— Sri Chinmoy
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An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence…
— Harriet Lerner
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Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
— Bliss Carman
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over…
— Tillie Olsen
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of…
— Seneca the Younger
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In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly…
— Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
— M.I.A.
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These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a…
— Doris Grumbach
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
— David Leavitt
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If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
— Virginia Woolf
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The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
— Franz Wright
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People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship with those who…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea,…
— Bernard Moitessier
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There are silences harder to take back than words.
— James Richardson
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races…
— Arthur Rimbaud
Who Wrote These Silences Quotes
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