- Official
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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I am all too aware of the real meaning of the list and of its purpose. Promoted by Turning Point USA, the list is not simply designed to expose professors who discriminate; it is designed to silence and smear.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.
- Filter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he recorded sober - fans were decidedly lukewarm.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is the wit of fools.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020