Quotes About Silence

The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

A sadness like a coqui that has been told to remain silent and I wanted Taina to sing...

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

What is the meaning of the immense silence that surrounds the dead?

No es en las horas más ruidosas cuando el Horror recorre el campo de batalla.

En este libro no habrán de ser objeto de embellecimiento los defectos y las culpas, los fallos y las insuficiencias, propios o ajenos. Para ser honesto, hay que saber. Para ser valiente, hay que comprender. Para ser justo no es lícito olvidar. Cuando la barbarie aplasta bajo su yugo hay que luchar, no puedo uno permitirse el permanecer callado. Quien calle en un época como esta traiciona su misión humana.

Um ehrlich zu sein, muß man wissen. Um tapfer zu sein, muß man verstehen. Um gerecht zu sein, darf man nicht vergessen. Wenn das Joch der Barbarei drückt, muß man kämpfen und darf nicht schweigen. Wer in solcher Zeit schweigt, verrät seine menschliche Sendung.

Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence conservait à notre rencontre le bénéfice d'un événement fortuit. Il était la complicité requise. Celui qui la dévoile la fait disparaître. Je le sais, je n'ai pas le droit de déduire de telles considérations de si faibles indices [...]

Nos encaminamos a la playa de los pescadores, despejada por la noche. Las barcas en seco alineadas ofrecían un apoyo para la espalda y entre ellas toda la quietud que hacía falta. Nos sentamos en la arena muy cerca, hombro con hombro, no nos entraban ganas de hablar. Algunas boces salian de las habitaciones de los pescadores. Del mar no, que hacía cosquilas a la orilla.

E' una specie di sabato, la terra si riposa, nessuno la lavora. Noi siamo la neve, Iosèf, che ne dici? Noi ricopriamo Ièshu fino al tempo assegnato. [La faccia delle nuvole]

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

But the importance of the Supreme Court's silence should not be underestimated. By declining to enforce the Constitutions's limits on police conduct, the Court was empowering the police and letting officers know that they could violate the Constitution with impunity. And by failing to limit racist policing, the Courts allowed it to continue unchecked.

if a person invokes the right to remain silent, all questioning must cease. If a person asks for a lawyer, questioning must end until one is provided

Berghuis, the Court ruled that the same is true of the right to remain silent. Simply put, a person is not protected by the right to remain silent unless he or she knows to say and actually says something as explicit as "I wish to assert my right to remain silent.

Stephen Weatherby, still filling in for Nick, clears his throat at the podium. "Hey, good to see all of you," he says, which is church-speak for "Please shut up and sit down.

If you are defamed, let time vindicate you — silence is a thousand times better than explanation. Explanations do not explain. Let your life be its own excuse for being — cease all explanations and all apologies and just live your own life. By minding your own business you give others an opportunity to mind theirs; and depend upon it, the great souls will appreciate you for this very thing.' In

Then ask everyone in the room to speak. When someone doesn't speak at the beginning of the retrospective, that person has tacit permission to remain silent for the rest of the session.

Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing with numbers, but not counting. Silence demands the nature of night, even in full day, it demands shadows.

Words melt in reflections; that's why there's a uselessness to this night, to my missing the river, to the delaying of love... light is picking up momentum in the vicinity of the oaks that cover this property, this silence.

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

A word is a lot.

There was no sound anywhere. No twitter of wakening birds in the gum trees, no bleat from the sandy paddocks, no low of far-off cattle. Silence - the frightful silence of Drought that has killed all life and now broods over the place aghast at her own handiwork.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

Ces choses là ne se racontent pas, on ne peut que les subir (308)