Quotes About Silence

If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.

There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.

I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare.

She left the apartment, closed the door quietly behind her and joined the others at the lift.

I followed the adage that if you really want to learn about someone, you should just shut up and listen.

I could have farted out loud, and it would have been less embarrassing than the silence. Finally

What did the leopard say after eating its trainer?

Licata's free hand clapped over his gaping mouth

Paul Richardson paused in his pacing around

I stood there silently, staring at the woman. I wanted to point out that it was the suspect who'd fired a pistol and run, but years of experience had taught me to let this go. In fact, from an early age, I'd learned to let most things go—my lack of achievement on the University of Miami football field, my failed love life, and even parts of my family life.

Then we drove out past the sandy lots of stillborn subdivisions that had gone silent in '08. Eventually, a gray wall appeared, blocking the view of the gated community from the street.

stopped before high

Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.

In 'Talvar', my character loses his daughter and it was quite an intense role. I had to concentrate and I would request all the unit members to stay silent before the take.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it