Moment Of Silence Quotes

• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• Silence is the garden of thought.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Garden, Silence, Silence Is

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• I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

  Chaim Potok

  Silence, Quality, Dimensions

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Religious, Silence, Moments

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• This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

  Rumi

  Silence, Needs, Moments

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• Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck
  in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Silence, Way, Moments

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life Changing, Epic, Power

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• Take a few moments every day to sit in silence and turn your full awareness inward to connect with your Spirit. These moments of silence can occur anytime and anyplace. The more you learn to tune in wherever you are, the easier it will become.

  Sonia Choquette

  Silence, Tunes, Inward

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• A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

  Thomas Moore

  Distance, Home, Garden

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• I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Mean, Animal

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• In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Truth, Integrity, People

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.

  Peter L. Berger

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Christmas, Christian

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• Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

  Debbie Ford

  Giving, Silence, Meditation

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• A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

  Neil Genzlinger

  Art, Silence, Moments

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• Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

  Arvo Part

  Here I Am, Silence, Comfort

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• When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in the orchard. It’s what you always do. Let’s have it.” Cam gave him a sardonic glance. “I can’t think of one right now.” “By God, I’ve had to listen to hundreds of them. And Phelan doesn’t have to hear even one?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Pigs, Eggs

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• Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Filled In, Silence, Television

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks Deadfall, Sons of Anarchy Season 5, Pacific Rim, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for Wb and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

  Frank Pavone

  Years, Silence, Abortion

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• Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.

  John Green

  Girl, School, Class

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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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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• You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

  Charlie Hunnam

  People, Silence, Complaining

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks DEADFALL, SONS OF ANARCHY Season 5, PACIFIC RIM, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for WB and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Talking, Silence, Moments

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• Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Strength, Death

  "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969.

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