Best Silences Sayings
122 Silences quotes by 97 unique authors
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I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your…
— Audre Lorde
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Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
— Ben Shapiro
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Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.
— Michael Jackson
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with…
— David Brainerd
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The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a…
— Jemima Khan
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing
— Beryl Markham
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New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops…
— Alison Fell
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[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your…
— Rajneesh
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Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
— Robin Gibb
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
— Elliott Carter
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The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
— Frank Darabont
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
— Jay Griffiths
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Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
— D. M. Thomas
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Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military…
— Antonin Scalia
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white…
— Steven Pinker
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Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there…
— Rajneesh
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
— Fernando Pessoa
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
— Mason Cooley
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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed…
— Audre Lorde
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Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
— Mary Webb
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It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad…
— Steven Wright
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection.…
— Anita Diament
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