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Tag Name "Silence" (2322)

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I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
Umar
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Vittorio Alfieri
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There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.
Andrew Linzey
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A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.
Chath Piersath
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Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.
Sathya Sai Baba
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Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andres Segovia
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Silence always gives consent.
Myrtle Reed
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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
John Lennon
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The way to become boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
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I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years, he really shouldn't be. Aged thirty, Abdellatif [Laâbi's ] was kidnapped from his home in Rabat by plainclothes policemen, bundled into the back of an unmarked car, driven to a dingy gaol, and tortured for days on end.
Andre Naffis-Sahely
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Andre Maurois
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
W. Averell Harriman
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Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Pope Boniface VIII
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.
André Brink
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.
Paul Brunton
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Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.
W. H. Auden
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Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
Anais Nin
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
Anais Nin
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis
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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
Wallace Stevens
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A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet no one? am I quite sure?
Marguerite Duras
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