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| Ansel Adams |
When words become unclear, I...
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| Kate Adie |
The better the information it...
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| Aeschylus |
Since long I've held silence a...
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| Aeschylus |
I, schooled in misery, know...
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| Vittorio Alfieri |
Deep vengeance is the daughter...
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| Muhammad Ali |
Silence is golden when you...
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| Saint Ambrose |
In some causes silence is...
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| Alejandro Amenabar |
In horror movies today it's...
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| Henri Frederic Amiel |
Truth is not only violated by...
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| Archie R. Ammons |
Only silence perfects silence.
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| Trey Anastasio |
I am a prince I have...
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| Jean Arp |
Soon silence will have passed...
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| Margaret Atwood |
A voice is a human gift...
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| Ausonius |
No man pleases by silence...
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| Jane Austen |
From politics, it was an easy...
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| Emanuel Ax |
Sometimes I wish that applause...
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| Francis Bacon |
Silence is the virtue of fools...
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| Francis Bacon |
Silence is the sleep that...
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| Faith Baldwin |
Sometimes there is a greater...
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| Daniel Barenboim |
In the beginning, there was...
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| Daniel Barenboim |
There are many types of...
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| Francis Beaumont |
It is more noble by silence...
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| Samuel Beckett |
Nothing matters but the writing...
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| Samuel Beckett |
Every word is like an...
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| Samuel Beckett |
Where I am, I don't know...
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| William R. Benet |
And now there is merely...
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| Isaiah Berlin |
The first people totalitarians destroy...
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| Josh Billings |
Silence is one of the hardest...
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| Brenda Blethyn |
I love silence.
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| Nellie Bly |
What a mysterious thing madness...
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| Elayne Boosler |
To listen to your own silence...
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| Wes Borland |
There may be something good in...
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| Pierre Bourdieu |
The most successful ideological effects...
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| F. H. Bradley |
True penitence condemns to silence...
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| Emily Bronte |
If I could I would always...
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| Charlotte Bronte |
The human heart has hidden...
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| Phillips Brooks |
A man who lives right, and...
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| James Broughton |
Everything is Song. Everything is...
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| Pam Brown |
Odd how much it hurts when...
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
But the child's sob curses...
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| Craig Bruce |
Silence is a statement that is...
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| Martin Buber |
For sin is just this, what...
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| William S. Burroughs |
Silence is only frightening to...
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| Octavia Butler |
Sometimes being a friend means...
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| Samuel Butler |
Silence and tact may or may...
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| Samuel Butler |
It is tact that is golden...
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| Charles Buxton |
Silence is sometimes the severest...
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| George Washington Cable |
And in the afternoon they...
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| John Cage |
There is no such thing as...
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| Albert Camus |
The world is never quiet, even...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
Under all speech that is good...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
Silence is the element in...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
When the oak is felled the...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
Silence is as deep as eternity...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
Silence is more eloquent than...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
Speech is human, silence is...
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| Thomas Carlyle |
Silence is as deep as eternity...
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| George Catlin |
I have seen him set fire...
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| Michel De Certeau |
The media transforms the great...
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| Aime Cesaire |
Poetic knowledge is born in...
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| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Silence is one of the great...
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| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Though silence is not necessarily...
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| Emile M. Cioran |
Speech and silence. We feel...
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| Emile M. Cioran |
A sudden silence in the middle...
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| Jean Cocteau |
Silence moves faster when it's...
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| Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
To a poet, silence is an...
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| Charles Caleb Colton |
Silence is foolish if we are...
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| Confucius |
Silence is a true friend who...
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| Mason Cooley |
After an argument, silence may...
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| Alice Cooper |
If it's total freedom, I guess...
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| Marie Corelli |
The Browning love story? It is...
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| Brittany Daniel |
It's kind of like Silence of...
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| Claude Debussy |
Music is the silence between...
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| Don DeLillo |
Silence, exile, cunning and so...
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| Jonathan Demme |
When Silence of the Lambs did...
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| Bernadette Devlin |
I got quite bored, serving in...
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| Isak Dinesen |
Who tells a finer tale than...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
Silence is the mother of truth...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
When little is done, little is...
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| Dorothy Dix |
Confession is always weakness. The...
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| William O. Douglas |
The critical point is that the...
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| William Drummond |
There is a silence, the child...
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| William Drummond |
Put a bridle on thy tongue...
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| George Eliot |
I like not only to be...
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| George Eliot |
If we had a keen vision...
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| T. S. Eliot |
And they write innumerable books...
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| George Eliot |
Worldly faces never look so...
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| Walter Elliot |
The desert has its holiness of...
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| Michael Ende |
She would sit by herself in...
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| Epictetus |
Silence is safer than speech.
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| Epictetus |
Keep silence for the most part...
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| Euripides |
Silence is true wisdom's best...
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| Federico Fellini |
I think television has betrayed...
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| Bryan Ferry |
You can never get silence...
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| Harvey Fierstein |
Never be bullied into silence...
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| Edward Fitzgerald |
Yesterday This Day's Madness did...
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| Robert M. La Follette |
Before the war is ended, the...
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| Anatole France |
Silence is the wit of fools...
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| Benjamin Franklin |
As we must account for every...
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| Jonathan Franzen |
And Silence of the Lambs is...
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| Judy Garland |
In the silence of night I...
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| Charles de Gaulle |
Silence is the ultimate weapon...
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| Gordon Getty |
I've had every advantage in...
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| Kahlil Gibran |
I have learned silence from...
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| Kahlil Gibran |
I have learnt silence from the...
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| Kahlil Gibran |
I wash my hands of those...
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| Amy Goodman |
Independent media can go to...
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| Zane Grey |
I can write best in the...
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| Susan Griffin |
A story is told as much...
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| Angelina Grimke |
The denial of our duty to...
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| Che Guevara |
Silence is argument carried out...
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| Margaret Halsey |
Some persons talk simply because...
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| Alice Hamilton |
When I talked to my medical...
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| Thomas Hardy |
That man's silence is wonderful...
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| John Haynes |
Strong efforts may be made to...
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| Mark Helprin |
Well-timed silence is the most...
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| Arthur Helps |
Strength is born in the deep...
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| Marilu Henner |
Silence and solitude are more...
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| Oliver Herford |
A man is known by the...
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| Herman Hesse |
It was still quiet in the...
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| John Hewson |
Silence is best.
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| Dana Hill |
People are never quiet. It's...
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| Thomas Hood |
I saw old Autumn in the...
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| Sidney Hook |
To silence criticism is to...
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| William Dean Howells |
He who sleeps in continual...
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| Elbert Hubbard |
He who does not understand...
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| Aldous Huxley |
After silence, that which comes...
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| Aldous Huxley |
Great is truth, but still...
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| Elizabeth I |
Do not tell secrets to those...
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| Pope John Paul II |
There are people and nations...
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| Bruce Jackson |
When friends and lovers die...
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| Alfred Jarry |
We believe... that the applause...
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| Thomas Jefferson |
The way to silence religious...
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| Samuel Johnson |
You hesitate to stab me with...
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| Lynn Johnston |
The most profound statements are...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
In the End, we will remember...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
We will have to repent in...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
We will remember not the words...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
History will have to record...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The ultimate tragedy is not...
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
We will have to repent in...
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| Wynonna Judd |
Silence is refreshment for the...
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| Donald Justice |
There is no way to ease...
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| Helen Keller |
Everything has its wonders, even...
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| Hazrat Inayat Khan |
Everything in life is speaking...
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| Thomas Starr King |
The Man Without a Country, was...
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| Ben Kingsley |
I think the cinema you like...
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| Zoltan Kodaly |
We should read music in the...
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| Andre Kostelanetz |
One of the greatest sounds of...
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| Nicholas D. Kristof |
The news media's silence, particularly...
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| Christopher Lasch |
The intellectual debility of contemporary...
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| Dino De Laurentiis |
After The Silence of the Lambs...
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| Ursula K. LeGuin |
The power of the harasser, the...
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| Abraham Lincoln |
To sin by silence when they...
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| Abraham Lincoln |
To stand in silence when they...
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Ships that pass in the night...
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| Federico Garcia Lorca |
With their souls of patent...
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| Audre Lorde |
Your silence will not protect...
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| Audre Lorde |
I write for those women who...
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| Wangari Maathai |
African women in general need...
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| Archibald MacLeish |
Once you permit those who are...
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| Archibald MacLeish |
To see the earth as it...
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| Maurice Maeterlinck |
Silence is the element in...
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| Marcel Marceau |
In silence and movement you...
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| Marcel Marceau |
To communicate through silence is...
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| Marcel Marceau |
Music and silence combine strongly...
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| Joyce Maynard |
I continued to protect him...
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| Joyce Maynard |
The silence was part of the...
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| Phyllis McGinley |
Words can sting like anything...
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| Cynthia McKinney |
It now becomes clear why the...
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| Cynthia McKinney |
Ever since I came to Congress...
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| Marshall McLuhan |
Darkness is to space what...
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| Anthony de Mello |
These things will destroy the...
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| Dmitri Mendeleev |
No one nor anything can...
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| Sam Mendes |
Truly great actors carry their...
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| George Meredith |
Speech is the small change of...
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| W. S. Merwin |
Now all my teachers are dead...
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| Joan Miro |
What I am looking for... is...
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| Bob Monkhouse |
Silence is not only golden, it...
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| Marianne Moore |
The deepest feeling always shows...
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| Lance Morrow |
Never forget the power of...
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| Nana Mouskouri |
Once I was condemned to three...
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| Bob Newhart |
Jack Benny was, without a...
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| Henri Nouwen |
Somewhere we know that without...
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| Sandra Day O'Connor |
A moment of silence is not...
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| Joyce Carol Oates |
If you are a writer you...
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| Saskya Pandita |
Much talking is the cause of...
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| Gilbert Parker |
He knew the lie of silence...
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| Arvo Part |
Silence is the pause in me...
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| Arvo Part |
Tintinnabulation is like this. Here...
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| Blaise Pascal |
The eternal silence of these...
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| Octavio Paz |
Literature is the expression of...
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| William Penn |
True silence is the rest of...
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| Matthew Perry |
If there's a silence in a...
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| Pindar |
Not every truth is the better...
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| Plato |
I shall assume that your...
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| Plato |
Your silence gives consent.
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| Plutarch |
Silence at the proper season...
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| Edgar Allan Poe |
The true genius shudders at...
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| J. Enoch Powell |
If I cannot understand my...
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| Philip Pullman |
For that reason you can't...
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| Philip Pullman |
We don't need lists of rights...
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| Pythagoras |
Silence is better than unmeaning...
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| Pythagoras |
It is better wither to be...
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| Jean Racine |
Love is not a fire to...
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| Aishwarya Rai |
I always believed that my...
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| Myrtle Reed |
Silence and reserve will give...
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| Adrienne Rich |
Lying is done with words and...
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| Paul Robeson |
As an artist I come to...
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| Boyle Roche |
We should silence anyone who...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Silence is the safest course...
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| Al Roker |
My first college roommate greeted...
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| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
Learn to get in touch with...
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| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
Those who have the strength...
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| Christina Rossetti |
Silence is more musical than...
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| Mark Rothko |
Silence is so accurate.
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| Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Absolute silence leads to sadness...
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| Jane Rule |
If we don't bear witness as...
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| Marquis de Sade |
So long as the laws remain...
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| Margaret Sanger |
Against the State, against the...
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| Thomas Sankara |
I can hear the roar of...
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| Robert Scheer |
And new people come in, and...
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| Friedrich Schiller |
Great souls suffer in silence.
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| Budd Schulberg |
Silence is the sure sign that...
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| Karl Shapiro |
But with exquisite breathing you...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Silence is the most perfect...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Choose silence of all virtues...
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| Cybill Shepherd |
I know you are going to...
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| Charles Simic |
Poetry is an orphan of silence...
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| Charles Simmons |
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by...
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| Paul Simon |
Between the ages of 15 and...
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| Paul Simon |
Listen to the sound of silence...
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| Paul Simon |
The words of the prophets are...
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| Edith Sitwell |
My personal hobbies are reading...
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| Susan Sontag |
Silence remains, inescapably, a form...
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| Sophocles |
Don't you know that silence...
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| Sophocles |
Silence is an ornament for...
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| Joanna Southcott |
New-Year's Day arriving, and...
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| Britney Spears |
When you're comfortable with someone...
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| Jean Stafford |
A small silence came between...
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| George Steiner |
Language can only deal meaningfully...
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| Mark Stevens |
One of the best things about...
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| Robert Louis Stevenson |
The cruelest lies are often...
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| Robert Stevenson |
The correction of silence is...
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| Sting |
I have a big problem with...
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| Leopold Stokowski |
A painter paints his pictures...
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| Robert Stone |
At the time, acid made me...
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| Rabindranath Tagore |
The water in a vessel is...
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| Johannes Tauler |
Because in the school of the...
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| Johannes Tauler |
In prayerful silence you must...
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| Terence |
Their silence is praise enough.
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| Mother Teresa |
We need to find God, and...
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| Alexander Theroux |
Silence is the unbearable repartee...
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| Helen Thomas |
It's time for women to make...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
In human intercourse the tragedy...
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| John Tillotson |
A good word is an easy...
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| Justin Timberlake |
The most boring thing in the...
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| Georg Trakl |
I drank the silence of God...
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| Alex Trebek |
It's very important in life to...
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| Martin Farquhar Tupper |
Well-timed silence hath more...
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| Lao Tzu |
Silence is a source of great...
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| Leonardo da Vinci |
Nothing strengthens authority so much...
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| Lech Walesa |
I belong to a nation which...
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| Lech Walesa |
Let the veil of silence fall...
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| Alice Walker |
No person is your friend who...
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| Emily Watson |
I think so, Silence of the...
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| Paul Weyrich |
CAIR officials or former officials...
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| Edith Wharton |
Silence may be as variously...
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| Elie Wiesel |
I swore never to be silent...
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| Simon Wiesenthal |
The schools would fail through...
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| Shelley Winters |
Every now and then, when...
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| Frank R. Wolf |
My hope and prayer is that...
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| Mary Wollstonecraft |
Women have seldom sufficient employment...
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| Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
Give me a mystery - just a...
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| Brigham Young |
Silence may be golden, but can...
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| Loretta Young |
In silence - and in self...
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