Their Silence Quotes

25 quotes by 25 authors

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their… — Samuel Johnson
On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that… — Thomas Jefferson
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 dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence… — Karl Rahner
The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning… — Grey Owl
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence… — Helen Keller
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man… — Rudolf Steiner
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this… — Gordon Cooper
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine… — Allen Tate
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said… — Joanna Southcott
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory… — Bob Barr
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. — Jay Griffiths
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world. — Zainab Salbi
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. — Helen Thomas
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new… — Simon Wiesenthal
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. — Annie Proulx
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or… — E E Cummings
I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in… — Silas House
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from… — Franz Kafka

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