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Silence Quotes

I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.

Silence People Black Think Thinking

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

Truth Power Job Silence Succeed Say

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 Medical Socialism American

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

Silence Start Laugh Doing Long You

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

William Shatner

Passion Silence Name Underneath

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

Silence Think Talk More Sound Than

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.

Time Silence Need Rights Forgotten

Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.

Silence Support Democracy Election

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence Denial Admission Either

I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.

Myself Silence Red Green Orange See

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

Education Music Time Silence Writing

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Depression Silence People Society

Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.

Sea Silence Stop Shepherd Quest

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

Great Discipline Man Silence Noise

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Life Heart Vision Silence Grow Die

With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.

Culture Past Silence Society Church

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend Silence Eye You Know Nothing

Silence is the most powerful state.

Harry Dean Stanton

Silence Powerful Most State

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Women Silence I Can Roar Hear

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Silence Learn Moments You Quiet Sit

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

Catherine Asaro

Silence Clouds Sound Solo Sing Bit

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Great Together Silence Fashion Which

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Love Home Silence Wind You Owl

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Silence Voice Never Naughty Kid Sit

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