He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i’m masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account...

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

If you’re hungry, eat one of my new starvation pills. They taste like silence.

I did something so stupid last night that I can’t even speak about it today. I took a vow of silence.

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

Tehran’s own silence this week … left strategic analysts with but one conclusion: it’s looking like either sanctions or a pre-emptive clean-up strike against enrichment plants in Iran might be the solution left.

When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every...

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

I didn’t know silence could be that loud.

I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. ‘Tis over now.

When the sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves – I swear, I would have heard it,...

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it’s way. When...

During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and...

Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.

People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say.

The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently…is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.

When you are silent you are again beautiful.

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn’t make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days–as long as...

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Gold is the dazzling element of silence. Arsenic is the untraceable one.

I don’t have the body for this,” I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. “No curves.”Jev’s eyes held mine. “Are you asking my opinion?

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words...

Don’t ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.

You’ll learn. Silence and apathy are the best ways of saying Fuck You

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

to be inside ye.

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which – grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, “Let there be no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – is arguably the first mandate for...

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about...

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Music is the silence between the notes.

At times we feel some thing is going to pierce the silence we are living in, After a while we realize its the silence

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

I don’t trust mutes. By their silence, I wonder what they’re hiding. The lost Templar treasure, mysteries of the universe, my love for you—who knows what they could have hidden away.

I’ve always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and there are always so many people in it. But I guess...

Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence.

The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong — who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:”The Universe In Blossom

I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said to me, “in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is,...

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.