Quotes About Silence

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

I don't comment on everything; I don't comment on things I don't know enough about. I feel people should talk about something only if they feel strongly about them.

Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet. That was hard to live with. But I've never played a gay role before, and I didn't want to be limited by some strange perception.

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

They want me to stop making my opinions and not saying a word; I know the Left wants that.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves...

The visit hadn't lasted much longer, and Wallace never said what he'd done, but after Larry watched him go, he'd spent the rest of the night on his porch as daylight crept through the trees like am army of crafty boys.

The beads of his words strung with too much silence between them.

Nooit meer zwijgen, Altijd schrijven. Nooit meer sprakeloos, BEGIN

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Todd murmelte stumm seine Verse mit, als ob er damit Neil helfen könnte. Aber Neil brauchte gar keine Hilfe.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Some people really can't afford to give me a piece of their mind.

My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Yes, but Father," he wanted to say from the back seat of a rapidly filling bus, "you never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

At night, when the streets of your cities and villages are silent, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them, and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.