- Nov 07, 2020
Silence Quotes
On the quiet that says more than words do.
One quote turns the volume down almost literally, finding something good and even funny in silence once you stop shouting over it. If quiet reminds you more of solitude than peace, our Alone quotes may fit closer.
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but if that person starts throwing stones into my home and affects the well-being of me and my family, then that silence is no longer strength; that silence becomes weakness.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020