Quotes About Silence

The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind.

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You are a child if you thought I didn't know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I've been—" He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

Even if you think such things, why do you say them?" she scolded. "If you'd just think what you please but keep your mouth shut, everything would be so much nicer.

It was as if the whole world were enveloped in an unmoving blanket of grey smoke. And the whole world was still.

Home was five blocks away. She would not wait for the sobbing Peter to harness the buggy, would not wait for Dr. Meade to drive her home. She could not endure the tears of the one, the silent condemnation of the other. She went swiftly down the dark front steps without her coat or bonnet and into the misty night. She rounded the corner and started up the long hill toward Peachtree Street, walking in a still wet world, and even her footsteps were as noiseless as a dream.

in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.

All she could think of was that she loved him--everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.