Quotes About Silence

o iš negirdim? mano b?ties gelmi? v?l pakyla nuostaba: setbiuosi, kad esu žmogus, žmogus miške, per rasas ir per dien? žengiantis žmogus, jau pamiršt?s vakarykšt? liet? ir šiandienos saul?, pats tuojs išgaruosiantis rasos lašas, pats pasijunt?s gegut?s kukavimu, ir strazdo giesme, pats sklindantis nuo vieno krašto iki kito ir sugr?žtantis tik kur?ioje tyloje.

i didn't see anyone! she said. who were you shooting at? what happened? there was a long silence. the men looked at each other. then clellan spoke, a little tentatively. he's very fast.

In the Seventeenth Century a man feared to go to Mass lest the Judges should punish him. To-day a man fears to speak in favor of some social theory which he holds to be just and true lest his master should punish him.

Going home does not come naturally to me. If my father's medium was silence, mine had tended to be escape. But there's no future in escape because the world is round. So the faster you run away, the faster you end up, right back where you started, face to face with whatever you were running from in the first place. Your worst fears, they're always the most patient. They'll wait up for you. That's what makes them the worst.

It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you.

men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere have, perhaps, contributed

Words as empty as the wind are best left unsaid

Sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.

Impressive displays of rhetoric and linguistic force are a good way to seem important and invite a particular kind of admiration, but they tend to silence dissent and discourage deeper modes of engagement.

not even if you speak of Agamemnon

One of the important things I learned at Spelman is that it's easy to mistake silence for acceptance.

Dead people have the best conversations of all. Lots of people don't really speak until they're dead, because only then can they say all the things to each other in the graveyard that they have been keeping a secret all their lives.

the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't

For an instant it was very peaceful Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and then it was like being shot off the road by a bazooka, but with no noise. Neither a deer on a hillside nor a man on a battlefield ever hears the shot that kills him, and a man going over the high side on a motorcycle hears the same kind of high-speed silence.

For reasons that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12-gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44 Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter and crashing glass. Yet the neighbors reacted with total silence.

We should talk less and draw more. (Goethe)

I can't say a thing. What is there to say? I have given birth to a son! What more can I possibly hope for? I hear his footsteps crossing the front yard and gradually fading away, off into the distance. As the silence grows, I suddenly realize that hes gone. He's gone to someplace far away, and he's never coming back.(2007: 153)

There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.

Whatever; if there's one thing I can't stand it's machines that talk back: SILENCE!

Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.

for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not yet fully woken up, and events within its sleek hull still moved to another, slower tempo, made half of dreams.

When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.