Silence Quotes - page 56

There is so much silence between the words, you say. You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. (Margaret Atwood)
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. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Sometimes I myself have been sublime, I myself have been a masterpiece. Sometimes my visions have been mingled with a thrill of evidence so strong and so creative that the whole room has quivered with it like a forest, and there have been moments, in truth, when the silence cried out. View quote
Henri Barbusse
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Yes, I know well that others before me have felt what I feel and express; that many others feel it today, although they keep silence about it. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. View quote
Fernand Braudel
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
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. View quote
Marilyn Manson
I later came to understand that this heckling was a sign of respect from these people, that the ability to handle it was a test of a person's worth, and that polite silence from them was an extremely bad sign, amounting to Pauli's famous criticism that the speaker was "not even wrong." View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. View quote
Philip Pullman
I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence. (George Bernard Shaw)
It was the hour before the Gods awake. Across the path of the divine Event The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone In her unlit temple of eternity, Lay stretched immobile upon Silence' marge. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Although there is a certain dignity in silence, which I find appealing, I have decided that for me, for our children, and for the historical record, I want to tell my side of the story. View quote
Nancy Reagan
From each a mystic silence Love demands. View quote
Attar of Nishapur
Strangewood was never silent. It was never supposed to be. There was such life and color in the wood and in the creatures who lived there that silence would be tantamount to death. It was very silent in Strangewood. View quote
Christopher Golden
The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext. View quote
Thomas Sankara
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. View quote
Thomas Sankara
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. View quote
Robert Fripp
Music so wishes to be heard that sometimes it calls on unlikely characters to give it voice, and ears. This wishing-to-be heard calls into existence the Performance Event; where music, musician and audience may come together as one, in communion. This communion has six different forms of being and experiencing itself (plus an invisible seventh); and these forms, or principles, are simultaneously present within the Performance. I - When people get together with music, something happens. II - In a performance, things come together, mysteriously; and go better than we might anticipate; and better than we deserve. III - A performance can take on a life and character of its own. IV - Any one performance is a multiplicity of performances. V - The possible is possible. VI - The impossible is possible. The Seventh Principle resides within Silence. Trust the event. View quote
Robert Fripp
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? View quote
Brigham Young
The fact is, and the thing that is so appalling to me, is that the President, when this whole idea was suggested to him, didn't in righteous indignation rise up and say "get out of here. You are in the office of the President of the United States. How can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping witnesses silent? This is the Presidency of the United States!", and throw them out of his office, and pick up the phone and call the Department of Justice and tell them "there is obstruction of justice going on, someone is trying to buy the silence of a witness."But my President didn't do that. He sat there, and he worked and worked to try to cover this thing up so it wouldn't come to light. (Lawrence Hogan)
I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride. View quote
Sabrina Ward Harrison
We give voice to our trivial cares, but suffer enormities in silence. View quote
Seneca
Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible. View quote
Seneca
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. View quote
Alan Moore