Silence Quotes

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

In these silences something may rise

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

I believe in destiny Angel. I believe every choice I've made has brought me closer to you. I looked for you for a very long time. I may have fallen from heaven, but I fell for you.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right?

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy