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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.
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- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some causes silence is dangerous.
- Nov 07, 2020
People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
- Concealing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
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- Nov 07, 2020