Silence Quotes

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

To women silence gives their proper grace.

You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Silent guns have virtue.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.