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God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.
I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'
One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.
to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
Sometimes, the players who are not spoken about a lot, they grow and get better - with silence.
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?