Quotes About Silence

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Cuando se vuelve a ver a alguien después de muchos años, habría que sentarse, uno frente al otro, y no decir nada durante horas para que, al amparo del silencio, la consternación pudiese saborearse a sí misma.

Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

I do not want my voice to go out into the air while my heart is sinking.

She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

Entä ellet sanoisi mitään?" ehdotti dekaani. "Etten sanoisi mitään? Hirvittävää. Olette järjiltänne." "Puhutteko te sitten aina, jos sopii kysyä?" tiedusteli Chapman. Risley sanoi, että asia oli niin. "Ettekö koskaan väsy puhumiseen?" "En koskaan.

Poor Mrs. Charles sat between her silent companions terrified at the course of events, and a little bored. She was a rubbishy little creature, and she knew it. A telegram had dragged her from Naples to the death-bed of a woman whom she had scarcely known. A word from her husband had plunged her into mourning. She desired to mourn inwardly as well, but she wished that Mrs. Wilcox, since fated to die, could have died before the marriage, for then less would have been expected of her.

She was silent. This cruel, vicious fellow knew of strange refinements. The horrible truth, that wicked people are capable of love, stood naked before her, and her moral being was abashed.

I shrug, and then we sit awhile without saying anything. Then he goes, 'Where'd you learn to fight like that, anyway?' I start to shrug again, and then I stop. 'I guess from my dad,' I say, which, really, is the truth.

Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you.

When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

Dilini bilmedi?in bir yerde a?lamak fenad?r. Çünkü seni, senin dilinde susturacak kimse yoktur.

Biz ölünce-siz susuyorsunuz ya,biz ondan ölüyoruz i?te-ölünce biz,kar??s?nda durup susaca??n?z kimse olmayacak.Silahlar?n?zla yaln?z ba??n?za kalacaks?n?z. Ho?ça kal?n.

Tluin," he whispered, into the gloom around him. "Naed, hrast, and farruking tluin.

There'll be no more music, Father. But there'll be this!" He stepped into the dark, picked up the knife, and held it under their noses. "Go home. Tell your people what you saw and heard here tonight. And tell 'em that anyone we catch on these roads after dark anymore... this is what they'll get. Now that I know we're never to see the face o' God, we have nothing to lose. So, make sure you have your message right, Father, 'cause there'll be no other warning.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

You can put your strength down. I'm sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don't need to say anything.

The neighbourhood was silent in the early morning, aside from the guy at the end of the street who played non-stop Slayer in his garage.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.