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  • Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

    Funny   Wise   Humor  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5
  • Silence is the space where man wakes up.

    Men   Space   Silence  
  • A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?

    Marguerite Duras (1968). “Ravishing Lol Stein”
  • Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

  • Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

    Silence   Way   Okay  
  • MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure's day. We haven't seen it yet, but there's going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It'll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You'll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you'll be shoved back onto your reality show.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

    Life   Sea   Silence  
    "Silence" l. 1 (1827)
  • The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!

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

    Silence   Steel   Paper  
    Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.162, Open Road Media
  • God is to creation as silence is to sound.

    God   Silence   Sound  
  • But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

    Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98
  • Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.

    Life   Wise   Country  
  • When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

  • Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

    Eerie   Names   Silence  
  • Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

    "Wong Kar-wai, Master of Hong Kong Cinema, on His Journey to 'The Grandmaster'". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 24, 2013.
  • Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

    William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA
  • Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

    Art   Silence   Quality  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics
  • Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

    Silence   Female   Woven  
  • Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

    Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

    Change   Happiness   Mean  
  • The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

  • Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

    Light   Space   Silence  
  • Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

    A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”
  • To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

  • The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

    Eye   White   Bird  
    Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  • I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

    "Mike Nichols, Master of Invisibility" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2009.
  • Silence is the wit of fools.

  • When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

    Friday   Children   Lying  
  • You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

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