Quotes About Silence

If he was the man she wanted him to be, he would not be intimidated by her silence.

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating.

Sí mi mente estaba volando. Me gustaría estar allí con alguien que me dejase el corazón en paz, alguien con quien pudiese vivir aquel momento sin miedo de perderlo al día siguiente. Así el tiempo pasaría más despacio; po-dríamos quedarnos en silencio, ya que tendríamos el resto de la vida para conversar. Yo no tendría que estar preocupándome de temas serios, decisiones difíciles, palabras duras.

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

Existe un lenguaje que va más allá de las palabras

Everything seemed wrapped in an aura of oppressive silence; it seemed that no one wanted to share their inner world with strangers.

Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it as far as the mouth because it is swallowed dry.

In a strange and ominous way the fate of women everywhere in the world is linked with the trend toward fascism. To delay might mean to be compelled to silence.

There in the silence of her own heart, she prayed the goddess to enlighten her and teach her mercy, and she prayed that Sakota might awaken to the grace of mercy shown her so that life could be saved. Strengthened by her prayers, the

THE GARDEN WAS QUIET. Beyond its walls no echo of footsteps could be heard above the soft incessant splash of the waterfall. The silence was planned, as everything in the garden was planned, though all seemed nature itself.

Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men.

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved. Shakyamuni Buddha said that more than twenty-five hundred years ago, but it seems that some things never change.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

Whenever you are angry shut your mouth. So that you can save yourself from loosing the beloved ones.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.