Silence Quotes - page 67

And the harder the SSC ["safe, sane and consensual"] gets pushed at me, the harder I feel like pushing back. Passion, that's what I'm into, passion and blood and honor, so powerful that it pounds through my veins and blinds me, so terrible that I can't look away. Danger, Dementia, and Denial. I want to hear that panic, scream "No, Please!" and struggle through the haze of pain and pleasure and all that stuff that goes on between the moment we touch eyes and the moment when we both collapse and try to catch our breaths and break the silence. (Laura Antoniou)
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us - that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence - then we don't like it any more. View quote
Stanisław Lem
The essential in Christianity, past, present and future, is loving Christ and one another, and if the Quaker finds God in the silence and the Salvation Army in the band, the Roman Catholic in the Mass and the Baptist in immersion; if the High Anglican likes incense and ceremonial, and the Methodist puts his emphasis on personal experience, the fellowship of the authentic class meeting and Charles Wesley's hymns, why talk of disunity? View quote
Leslie Weatherhead
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. View quote
Homer
When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it's actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It's not as senseless as it seems. It's a way to silence someone, but also it's a way to silence their family as well, out of fear, and society by extension. View quote
Hisham Matar
Sky's so big and dazzling and buzzing and crackling and moaning with all that black silence, I feel like my skull is open to space, all that way-beyond soaking directly into my brain. Stars and stars and stars...some of em planets, some of em satellites. All of em out there, alone, untouchable. View quote
Malcolm Azania
In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God. View quote
Maud Hart Lovelace
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. View quote
Maud Hart Lovelace
The most important language of personal joy is the often complex linguistics of silence. View quote
Michael Elmore-Meegan
And silence ... is loud! And I'd be straining real hard to hear what those two boys were saying. And finally, just when they figured I had my ear right against the window, one of those ol' boys would turn to the other and say "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?" And the other one would say "Why no, tell me about it!" (Mike Warnke)
Having finished his argument Stephen walked on in silence. He felt Cranly's hostility and he accused himself of having cheapened the eternal images of beauty. For the first time, too, he felt slightly awkward in his friend's company and to restore a mood of flippant familiarity he glanced up at the clock of the Ballast Office and smiled: - It has not epiphanised yet, he said. View quote
James Joyce
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech. View quote
William Shakespeare
The silence often of pure innocence; Persuades when speaking fails. View quote
William Shakespeare
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul. View quote
William Shakespeare
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. View quote
Pam Brown
It is so sweet to hear His voice in silence, so sweet indeed. View quote
Elia M. Ramollah
It is in silence, denial, evasion and suppression that danger really lies, not in open and free analysis and discussion ... everywhere there seems to be a fear of reliance upon that ancient device so gloriously celebrated by John Milton three hundred years ago - the device of unlimited inquiry. View quote
Charles A. Beard
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? View quote
Marcel Proust
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire... View quote
Marcel Proust
When the loud day for men who sow and reap Grows still, and on the silence of the town The insubstantial veils of night and sleep, The meed of the day's labour, settle down, Then for me in the stillness of the night The wasting, watchful hours drag on their course, And in the idle darkness comes the bite Of all the burning serpents of remorse; Dreams seethe; and fretful infelicities Are swarming in my over-burdened soul, And Memory before my wakeful eyes With noiseless hand unwinds her lengthy scroll. Then, as with loathing I peruse the years, I tremble, and I curse my natal day, Wail bitterly, and bitterly shed tears, But cannot wash the woeful script away. (Aleksandr Pushkin)
Poetry is an orphan of silence. View quote
Charles Simic
Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind. View quote
Toni Morrison
I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. View quote
Toni Morrison
It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence. View quote
James Branch Cabell