Silences Quotes

122 Silences quotes by 97 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
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
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
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
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? — M.I.A.
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a… — Doris Grumbach
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. — David Leavitt
If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. — Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
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
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
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences. — Virginia Woolf
The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. — Franz Wright
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
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
There are silences harder to take back than words. — James Richardson
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

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