Quotes About Silence

I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.

Think of the analytical mind as a separate part of the conscious mind that divides it from the subconscious mind. Since the placebo works only when the analytical mind is silenced so that your awareness can instead interact with the subconscious mind—the domain where true change occurs—the placebo response is possible only when you can get beyond your self and so eclipse your conscious mind with your autonomic nervous system.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Then, for a while, it was quite still in the old foundry, where the man and the devil lay side by side--although which was which would perhaps have been a matter for theological debate.

He's like the tiger shark in Jaws. The one Dreyfuss cuts open in the fisherman's basement. That's why we named him Hooper. You remember the tiger shark? He had a license plate in his stomach?" "I never saw Jaws. I caught one of the sequels on TV in rehab. The one with Michael Caine." Another silence followed, this one awestruck and wondering. "Jesus. No wonder we didn't last," Lou said.

LIBRARIES: WHERE SHHH HAPPENS.

Ever try not to think? It's like trying not to breathe—no one can do it for long.

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and killed, in her heart if not with her voice. God's reply had been that due to the high volume of calls she could expect to be on hold until she was dead.

Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip. Bury the liars and the wicked under stones until they say no more. More weight, hallelujah.

Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.

language is no way to communicate

Eu ponho uma bola de gude na boca para me lembrar de ficar calado e escutar de vez em quando.

PLEEZ BE QUITE IN THE LIBERY PEPLE R TRYING TO GET HI!

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

I was a shy kid and I was afraid what i said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever saud anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing.

It meant I spent less time with my aunt, moving through silence like a ship through fog.

She (Hestizo) nodded, and for the moment neither of them spoke. There were times when no amount of speech could convey the heart's grief, and silence was the most articulate response. After a time, she felt Bennis tentatively reaching for her hand -Hestizo Trace

I would simply crush his windpipe so he could say no more offensive things to women.

My voice felt dead, even to me, like somebody talking in his sleep.

The quoted are equated with being the leaders of an age, as if there sits not in silence an even wiser sage.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.