Silence Is Quotes - Page 15

• It's true that we in Iraq are now paying a heavy price as a consequence of senseless violence, but nonetheless there are many positive things happening generally on the part of people in Arab countries who were living in darkness and absolute silence because of dictatorship. The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, People, Silence

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• Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Silence, Political, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure's day. We haven't seen it yet, but there's going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It'll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You'll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you'll be shoved back onto your reality show.

  Patton Oswalt

  Reality, Thinking, Silence

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

  Ben Folds

  Silence, Notes, Insert

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• Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love
  inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Silence, Speak

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.9, Fig

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• If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

  Keith Jarrett

  Silence, Sound, Should

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• the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Silence, Delicacy, Charm

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes ... Author's edition, revised”, p.113

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• It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Silence, Difficult

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• As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

  Judith Hayes

  Christian, Prayer, Fear

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• unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Family, Silence, Unhappy

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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• Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Silence, Quality

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Leader, Silence

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• The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, Taste, Appetite

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

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• The fruit of Silence is Prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Silence, Fruit

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.3, Image

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• Male silence is not the same as listening

  Gloria Steinem

  Silence, Listening, Males

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• Silence is often advantageous.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Silence

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• Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Secret Love, Silence, Deeds

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• Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.

  Russell Sherman

  Angel, Bridges, Ideas

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Flower, Light

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• What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Speech, Language

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• Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you're working on.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Silence, Important, Done

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• Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Water, Silence

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• Silence is the space where man wakes up.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Space, Silence

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• Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Silence, Mind, Quiet

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