Quotes About Silence

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I'm doing pretty good on my own, when I can control my tongue.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want them to be silent and strong about these things. And that's quite dangerous when it comes to depression, because talking about it helps. People bottle it up until it's too late.

I talk too much.

I talk too much and I don't listen or pause to think.

It's dangerous to talk too much about future fights.

I actually don't like boxers who talk too much.

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.

When you ask someone a question and they're slow to respond, don't feel pressure to move the conversation forward. Remaining silent plays to your advantage. Moments of silence make people feel as though they should speak, especially when the ball is in their court. This is a great tool to use in negotiations and other difficult conversations.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

Mentioning the word 'menstruation' has always been a taboo in India. People always shy away from talking about menstruation hygiene, and the awareness about the topic is very dismal.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the silences - socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.