Silence Quotes

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. Ausonius
Silence Man Please Pleases Speaking Many
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad. Chrystia Freeland
Silence World Criticism Leader First Admired Seek Abroad Outside Outside World Like Most Least Praised Source Authoritarian Often Repressive Cannot Even
I used to be very scared of silence because I felt it was my responsibility to keep people occupied. That definitely spawns from an insecurity in myself. When people aren't enjoying themselves, when I'm involved, it somehow comes back to it being my fault. But I do want people to have a good time. Dylan Sprouse
Time Myself Good Silence People Fault Responsibility Insecurity Good Time Back Definitely Scared Somehow Involved Because Felt Occupied Very Being Want Themselves Used Keep Enjoying
Great souls suffer in silence. Friedrich Schiller
Great Silence Great Souls Souls Suffer
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen
Politics Silence Easy Step
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. Johannes Tauler
Wisdom Silence Knowledge Man Learning Speak School Live Humility Spirit Through Because Learns How Forgetting Dying To Live By
If my energy was fake, then I would feel pressured, because I gotta, like, keep this up. I thank God it's just how I am. But I find myself wanting to work on being more comfortable in the silence with people. Jonathan Van Ness
Work God Myself Silence People Thank God Energy Pressured Would Find More Feel Like Comfortable Because Fake How Am Gotta Up Thank Just Being Wanting Then Keep
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence Denial Though Admission Either Necessarily
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz
Nature Silence History Noise Language Feeling Sense Something Recourse True Missing Also Makes Contrary Human Literature Against Deprivation Us Meaningless Expression
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. Paul Simon
Silence Words Walls Prophets Written Halls Sounds Subway Whispered
In some causes silence is dangerous. Saint Ambrose
Silence Dangerous Some Causes
To silence criticism is to silence freedom. Sidney Hook
Freedom Silence Criticism
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. T. S. Eliot
Silence Own Every Vain Too Books Distracted Seeking Write Emptiness Dodging His Being After Elevation
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle
Silence Must Both Divine Also Dead Learn Human Arts Therefore Speech
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. William Drummond
Silence Peace Words Safety Before Repentance Own Mouth Guard Destroy Put Thy Cometh Lips Much Speaking Lest Bridle Thine Tongue Set
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Silence Will Long Several Topics Run Long Run Advantage Always Believed
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. Amy Goodman
Silence Corporate Independent Networks Sound Doing Go Refuse Where Break Barrier Media
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Andrea Bocelli
Beautiful Music Silence Most Beautiful Witness Silences Some Beautiful Music Importance Most Which Even
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence. Billy Collins
Silence Live Ears Slowly Learned Go
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. Bob Monkhouse
Silence Only Seldom Misquoted Golden
Silence is more musical than any song. Christina Rossetti
Silence Song Musical More Than Any
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. Edith Wharton
Silence May Speech
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. Elie Wiesel
God Faith Silence Religious About Having Wrote Course Answer Does Question Questioned Very Stopped Mean Night
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Silence Man Strong Strong Man Wrath His Than Child Curses Sob Deeper
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. Emil Cioran
Silence Conversation Invention Pay Back Must Reveals How Dearly Essentials Middle Us Sudden Suddenly Brings Speech
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Francis Beaumont
Silence Overcome Argument More Noble Than Avoid Injury
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