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


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