Quotes About Silence

Then the silence was broken by a whisper soft as a feather falling, yet which seemed to fill the whole Temple with sound: 'Follow me now, my father,' said the voice of Se-Osiris, 'for the time is short and we must be back before the morning if we would live to see the Sun of Ra rise again over Egypt.' Setna turned, and saw beside him the Bai or soul of Se-Osiris - a great bird with golden feathers but with the head of his son. 'I follow,' he forced his lips to answer....

Wir waren die, die verschwanden. Wir lebten als der Mensch, der sich in der Tür umdreht, noch etwas sagen will, aber nichts mehr zu sagen hat.

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters.

Kitab? Poetry and Experience'ta (?iir ve Deneyim) Archibald Mac-Leish, kar??la?man?n iki kutbu için olas? olan en evrensel terimleri kullan?r: "Varl?k ve Yokluk." Çinli bir ?airden al?nt? yapar: "Biz ?airlerin yoklukla mücadelesi, onu varl??? ortaya ç?kartmaya zorlamak içindir. Sessizli?i bir müzik yan?t? almak için t?klat?r?z.

Beneath our loquacious chatter, there is a silent language…Our common human language is not…something to do with vocal cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony and other aspects of simple and fundamental form.

Trzeba umie? milcze? o tym samym, a nie tylko o tym samym mówi?.

Khi ??ng Ä'i?u là thá»±c ch?t và tr?n v?n, không màu mè, thì ch? có im l?ng là bi?u lá»™ ???c nó ra.

I searched for something to say, since you always have to fall back on words to prevent silence from speaking too loudly..

Foarte aproape de noi, p?durea râdea uneori cu o voce un pic ascuÈ›it? de feti?? È™i apoi se aÈ™ternea o t?cere îndelungat? È™i era greu s? nu o b?nuieÈ™ti de un s?rut, sau chiar mai r?u. Era totuÈ™i o p?dure foarte demn? È™i chiar afectat?, care avea mai multe titluri de nobleÈ›e.

Cookie avait fait quelque chose de tout à fait compréhensible, mais cela ne pouvait pas se communiquer. On ne peut pas mettre ça en mots. Les mots mentent comme ils respirent.

sokoote donafare adamaro beham nazdik mikone /

For the greatest things are accomplished in silence—not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision; in the almost imperceptible start of decision, in quiet overcoming and hidden sacrifice.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel.

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

No one talked as Jesse moved - it was as if his acts were miracles of invention wonderous to behold.

Nuestras vidas empiezan a acabarse el día en que guardamos silencio sobre las cosas importantes MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

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.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it.

Is it not confusing to young men to be taught in their churches and homes to honor, protect, and cherish women, but hear a deafening silence in response to Trump's low view of women by many of those same chivalry-promoting Christians?