Silence Quotes - Page 31

• Right now, I would like complete silence when I'm talking.

  CM Punk

  Talking, Wwe, Right Now

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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• A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

  Chaim Potok

  Two, Coins, Silence Is

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Defense, Opponents, Weak

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.227

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• Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

  Mike Dirnt

  Thinking, Next Week, Months

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• Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Home, Giving, Joy

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Joy

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• The price of seeing is silence.

  Marge Piercy

  Seeing

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.30, Knopf

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• A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

  Anuj

  Men, Voice, Humanity

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• After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Speak, Lifetime, Difficult

  "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia". Book by Marya Hornbacher, 1998.

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• A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

  A.M. Homes

  Thinking, Talking, People

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books

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• It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Our World, Voice

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, p.35, Hachette UK

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

  Neil Genzlinger

  Art, Moments, Lost

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• Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Often Can, Waiting, Accomplish

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• Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

  Robert Breault

  Doe, Sometimes, Embarrassing

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• A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

  Robert Breault

  Women, Winning, Argument

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• By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Gaps, Window

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• The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

  Joyce Maynard

  Stories, Wanted

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• A story that must be told never forgives silence.

  Okey Ndibe

  Forgiving, Stories, Never Forgive

  Okey Ndibe (2016). “Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American”, p.189, Soho Press

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• It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

  Hermann Hesse

  School, House, Sound

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• Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Perseverance, Stupid, Action

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• Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.

  James Russell Lowell

  Letting Go, Song, Rain

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Despair, Answers

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• And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence and solitude be my teachers.

  Evan Tanner

  Teacher, Eye, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Religious, Men, Weakness

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