Silence Quotes - page 61

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. (Pablo Neruda)
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. View quote
Albert Camus
There were no sounds of men, here; only the whisperings of the world of nature, which men often called silence. View quote
Sean Russell
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside. View quote
Paul Bowles
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. View quote
Omar Khayyám
After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; "They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?" View quote
Omar Khayyám
The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a "settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver gives the individual thus armed. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
One word from you shall silence me forever. View quote
Jane Austen
My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. (Jane Austen)
Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted. View quote
George William Russell
Make of thy gentleness thy might: 'Make of thy silence words to shake The long-enthroned kings of earth: Make of thy will the force to break Their towers of wantonness and mirth.' View quote
George William Russell
Silence and coolness now the earth enfold. View quote
George William Russell
The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it.” I waited in silence. View quote
Elena Ferrante
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint. View quote
William Osler
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. View quote
Samuel Beckett
As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction. View quote
Patton Oswalt
If you are going to penalize disloyalty, you must first determine what loyalty is; if you are going to silence nonconformity, you must determine what conformity is-and to what it conforms. View quote
Henry Steele Commager
If government, or those in positions of power and authority, can silence criticism by the argument that such criticism might be misunderstood somewhere, there is an end to all criticism, and perhaps an end to our kind of political system. For men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. (Henry Steele Commager)
Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise? View quote
Mitch Albom
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. View quote
Mitch Albom
What is it about silence that makes people uneasy? View quote
Mitch Albom
Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken. View quote
Mitch Albom