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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)
The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.
To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
I work on my own music every day. I'm pretty much always working on it so it's like, after I get out the studio, I just want silence.
Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!