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Quotes About Silence

Oh, Lord, sometimes I know how David feels. Where are You when I need You? Why do You seem so far away? Why are You so silent? I can count my blessings from morning to night. I can remember all the things You've done for me from the time I was a little child. I remember and I cry out to You, and You're nowhere to be found. I have lost my joy.
~ Francine Rivers
It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.
~ Francine Rivers
I'll take care of that." Merrick bent and pinched Sarah's chin. "You say anything to anybody about me being in this room with Cleo, and I'll cut your little pink tongue out. Understand?" Sarah believed him, and nodded her head. He smiled slightly and let her go. She darted to the corner and crouched there, trembling and feeling sick. "See?" Merrick crowed gleefully. "Nothing to worry about. She won't say a word about us to anyone.
~ Francine Rivers
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
~ Francis Bacon
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
~ Francis Spufford
Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. Who wants to kill him? The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their hands. Mmmmmm mmm mmm, protested Jack.
~ Frank Beddor
Enthusiasm. Order: self-organization. Think in terms of others' interests. Questions. Key issue. Silence: listen. Sincerity: deserve confidence. Knowledge of my business. Appreciation and praise. Smile: happiness. Remember names and faces. Service and prospecting. Closing the sale: action.
~ Frank Bettger
When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
~ Frank Herbert
Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts—voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.
~ Frank Herbert
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
~ Frank Herbert
Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.
~ Frank Herbert
Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation—the curtains whipped away—she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote.
~ Frank Herbert
Postoje stvari koje rije?i ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez rije?i.
~ Frank Herbert
Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.
~ Frank Herbert
Za razumijevanje su potrebne rije?i. No neke stvari se ne mogu svesti na rije?i. A neke druge stvari se mogu doživjeti samo bez rije?i.
~ Frank Herbert
In the silence that came between them, a breeze from a ventilator could be heard fingering the blinds.
~ Frank Herbert
They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts—voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.
~ Frank Herbert
Eram máscaras baratas presas a pensamentos supurados: vozes que lutavam para afogar o silencio clamoroso em cada íntimo
~ Frank Herbert
In the silence that followed, they heard Kynes. 'Bless the Maker and His water,' Kynes murmured. 'Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
~ Frank Herbert
Ahora el silencio era tan profundo que casi sentía el fluir de la lechosa y azulada luz de luna sobre los saguaros centinelas y los matojos espinosos.
~ Frank Herbert
When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to him either for fear she'll give us the bitter look. We know Dad has done the bad thing and we know you can make anyone suffer by not talking to him. Even little Michael knows that when Dad does the bad thing you don't talk to him from Friday to Monday and when he tries to lift you to his lap you run to Mam.
~ Frank McCourt
Gustavo Solivellas dice: La religión es excelente para mantener callada a la gente común (Frank Zappa)
~ Frank Zappa
Big stone house," Joe answered. "Slate roof. Stands back from the road a way. Nobody's been living there for some time, though." "You're observant," the banker commented. For a moment he was silent, as if trying to make a decision. He pulled nervously at his hatbrim. "Okay, boys," he said finally. "You want to be detectives. Take a look around there on your hike.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
~ Franz Kafka