Quotes About Silence

Hope will never be silent.

History will judge me... I shall remain silent.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

The only thing I know is the only things that I know. You can't ask me to talk about something I have no information on. I stay silent. It'd be foolish. So when I talk about something, it's something I at least have a little bit of familiarity with me.

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

See and keep silent.

If I keep silent, I am betraying my people.

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.

I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

I like a guy who's sarcastic, serious, sensitive - even just silent. But you have to do it at the right times. That's sexy. To me, it reflects intelligence.

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You're also more rested - you're not as reactive.