Top Silence Quotes
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin
Thomas Carlyle 
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Judy Garland 
Jonathan Demme 
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Harvey Fierstein 
Robert Louis Stevenson All Silence Quotes
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
Karl Shapiro 
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim
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A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold Stokowski
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Philip Pullman
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
William O. Douglas
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
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The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
Thomas Starr King
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Popular Silence Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonSamuel ButlerBenjamin DisraeliThomas Carlyle Plato SophoclesAbraham LincolnFrancis Bacon
Blaise PascalGeorge EliotAlbert CamusMartin Luther King, Jr.Aldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusElbert HubbardCharles Caleb ColtonLao TzuJosh BillingsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Confucius
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