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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
Gary Oldman
Silence
Enjoy
Characters
Loud
Where
Playing
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Silence
You
Men
Own
Other
Virtues
Imperfections
Conceal
Hear
Your
Choose
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
George Steiner
Silence
Reality
Language
Rest
Presumably
Restricted
Only
Segment
Part
Deal
Meaningfully
Much
Special
Larger
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin
Silence
People
Men
Free
First
Minds
Destroy
Ideas
First People
When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.
James E. Faust
God
Good
Silence
Will
Before
Intuitively
Wrong
Knows
Lord
Encouraging
Achieved
Which
Conforming
Holiness
Speaks
Right
If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
Jeff Rich
Silence
You
Nice
Say
Dead
Lot
Anything
Creates
Awkwardness
Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.
Jill Stein
Needs
Silence
Democracy
Election
Oppose
Support
Supporters
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Majority
Him
Clinton
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Just
Where
Even
Now
Right
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
Time
Silence
Try
Space
Empty Space
We Cannot
See
Something
Fact
Make
Empty
Always
Hear
May
In Fact
Cannot
Thing
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie
Good
Silence
Democracy
Better
Secrecy
Never
Information
Works
I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.
Marilyn Manson
Music
Silence
Matter
Ears
TV
Ring
Like
Without
Loud
Where
Sleep
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin
Inspirational
Me
Silence
World
Will
Hear
Ever
Thing
Last
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.
Matt Haig
Silence
Man
Ignorance
Dangerous
Somewhere
Danger
Scale
Must
Mental
Mental Illness
More
Combat
Leads
Imply
Stigma
Issue
Very
Than
Any
Human
Being
Being A Man
Depressive
Should
Illness
Even
Resist
Careful
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri
Silence
Book
Speak
Three
Once
Months
Absolute
Could
Wrote
Condemned
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly
Silence
Madness
Live
Eat
Something
Mysterious
Missing
Without
Perpetual
Exist
Forever
Lips
Human
Patients
Form
Cannot
Which
Breathe
Human Form
Body
Sealed
Whose
Thing
Watched
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
Patanjali
Nature
Silence
Mind
Settled
Settling
Our
Unbounded
Overshadowed
Yoga
Essential
Established
Which
Activity
Consciousness
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.
Pope John Paul II
Best
Silence
You
People
Mother
Way
Say
Would
Entrust
Name
Like
Know
Nations
Them
When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.
Rod Rosenstein
Silence
Criminal
Following
Federal
Investigation
Open
Simply
Concealing
Concealment
Prosecutors
Policy
Context
Quietly
Refrain
Anything
Information
Agents
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
Silence
Man
Wonderful
Listen
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin
Silence
Except
Dead
Teachers
Now
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Me
Silence
Simple
Slim
Give
Give Me
Mystery
Just
Just One
Which
Little
Plain
Diffidence
To be honest, I hate silence.
Chuck Palahniuk
Silence
Hate
To Be Honest
Honest
I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and the snow falling and that silence, that snow silence. That's, like, a very peaceful, happy place for me.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Love
Me
Silence
Happy
Top
Favorite
I Love
Like
Sport
Falling
Very
Mountain
Snow
Snowboarding
Sitting
Place
Peaceful
Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to 'care' for women 'no matter what' and champion 'women's rights' - yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.
Abby Johnson
Silence
Rights
Woman
Women
Champion
Better
Matter
Care
Consistently
Claimed
Parenthood
Than
Any
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Who
Deserve
Thinks
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele
Silence
Naughty
Before
Sit
Mime
Corner
Nine
Kid
Mute
Voice
Never
Had
Days
Like
Around
Tap
Off
Happened
Victorian
Neck
Recently
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
Adriana Trigiani
Silence
Total
Write
Like
Dryer
Sound
Am
Quiet
Going
Even
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Aeschylus
Silence
Long
Remedy
Since
Held
Harm
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