Quotes about silence

Bees will not work except in darknessThought will not work except in Silenceneither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.

Silence is a giver it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday we are already in it.

When we keep our silence we gather our power when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.

The holiest of all holidays are thoseKept by ourselves in silence and apartThe secret anniversaries of the heart.

There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love I know it's not cheap.

I am speechless: what can I answer?I put hand on my mouth.I have said too much alreadynow I will speak no more.

He feels the word close enough to absorb itan exorcised silence creating cliffsides to escape to and reverse.

She found herself too visible in silence exposed in the quiet of reflection.

The bigness of the West makes men quiet they seldom talk unless they have something to say.

If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world offer your silence with smile.

Silence is the song of eternity it is the expression of eternal beauty.

Your silences remain they are your biggest mask.

The real in us is silent the acquired is talkative.

Christmas silence breathed childlike anticipation in your heart.

But the night doesn't swallow her up.Everywhere she goes she is still therethe silence is as big as herself.

Silence is more than observation it informs from non-observation.

The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words all that was left were two faintly beating hearts.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence noiselessly they conversed.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

Fish held the silence for so long that I had to restrain myself from prodding her. That's never a good idea. Sometimes people hesitate because they don't have the courage to come out with whatever needs to be said other times they desperately want to speak but can't find the words. Jabbing them prematurely tends to shut them up. Outwaiting them gives them the time to say more than they intend.

A right word counts the silence a bad word is counted by the page.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny we live where we want to live.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

I don’t argue I listen in silence with love. My silence answers better than my voice.

The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like the silence under the sea;No cries announcing birth,No sounds declaring death.There is silence when the milt is laid on the spawn in the weeds and fungus of the rock-clefts;And silence in the growth and struggle for life.The bonitoes pounce upon the mackerel,And are themselves caught by the barracudas,The sharks kill the barracudasAnd the great molluscs rend the sharks,And all noiselessly--Though swift be the action and final the conflic

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!'

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

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.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.