Quotes About Silence

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. We became the illegal newspaper.

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

Aiden was stunned silent for a minute. His mind was whirring. Then he was slowly overcome by a sly grin. "Oh man," he said. "You wouldn't be able to keep yourself from answering the phone if it rang, hoping it could be her, so you unplugged it." "You're out of your mind…" "You'd

Gentlemen, I propose a toast," Jack said, lifting his glass. "Let's drink to silence. If this conversation ever leaves this bar, we're all going to die. Skinless." "Silence," the other men agreed. "All

She didn't need advice from Mel or anyone else. She'd given him every chance, but he never said a word about how he felt about her, not a syllable about wanting a life with her. She had to make herself move on before she couldn't.

In 1998 Gordon Hempton, a sound recordist attempting to build a library of natural sounds, toured fifteen states west of the Mississippi and found only two areas--in the mountains of Colorado and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota--that were free of motors, aircraft, industrial clamor, or gunfire for more than fifteen minutes during daylight.

I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

The dead never listen when you want to tell them anything.

The way i figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes

If a corporation with access to private data decides that progress requires suppressing dissenting opinions, it will be easy to identify the dissidents, even if they have said not one word publicly.

Many Christians will see through these lies today but will choose not to speak up. Their silence will not save them and will instead corrode them, according to Mi?osz.

Psalm 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God" or "The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him." (Habakkuk 2:20)

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

y con sólo algunas hebras como vestigio de la noche.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

Jo declaró en una entrevista en 1956: "Un día voy a escribir la historia verdadera de Edward Hopper... Es puro Dostoievski. ¡Oh, es amargura aplastante!". [...] En la misma entrevista dijo que hablar con Edward "era a veces exactamente como tirar una piedra en un pozo, salvo que no hace ruido al caer".

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

He] would have cried out in horror if the silence had not pressed like a weight that held him paralyzed.