Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
I was always very quiet, and I think everyone thought that was because I was a good child. I'd sit there in silence, but it wasn't until my mother was calling me one day when I was very young that she realised something was wrong because I wasn't responding.
I feel like thereβs a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then weβve evened out. And I donβt need to even that out because if somebodyβs being negative, I need to be the better person.
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and early 1970s has, in her view, all but crumbled in the face of a bombardment of sadism and misogyny, the withholding of civil liberties, and the nation's move from proud speech into near-deafening silence.
Silence is safer than speech.
There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my favourites. 'It.' 'Needful Things.' Moving away from King, and 'Silence of the Lambs' is always a good choice.
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
