I'm excited for her and what it means for continuing and moving the discussion about discrimination about and gays and lesbians out into the public, ... Any kind of conversation is good rather than silence.
I'm excited for her and what it means for continuing and moving the discussion about discrimination about and gays and lesbians out into the public, ... Any kind of conversation is good rather than silence.
We must end this tyranny of silence.
And the old soldier is struck with silence,
Or his mind flies away
Because he cannot concentrate it on Gettysburg.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
The Day of Silence is a peaceful way of bringing attention to this issue.
That was it. It was total silence. I told my wife to call 911.
I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence.
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.
What is a street It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
We eddy about her, move away in silence.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
It was simply a slow, dead man walking kind of thing. I had expected turbulence, the worst I experienced was people averting their eyes and the most common reaction was people looking at me, silence.
And the silence of Jeanne d'Arc
Saying amid the flames, "Blessed Jesus" --
Revealing in two words all sorrows, all hope.
There is the silence of defeat.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Henri Prunieres commenting on the music of Claude Debussy He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the wavessubleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key; be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.
All too often there was only silence. We need role models. We need to raise up people who have encountered challenges and show that love can go the distance.
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Democrats are not as indignant over the high costs of energy now as their party controls congress and it is harder to point the finger at anyone. To date the Democrats, who had blamed the policies of a GOP-led Congress for helping fuel record oil-industry profits, now control the House and Senate. The silence is deafening.
Not one prayer or moment of silence for those who have given their lives. And they complain about (falling box office numbers). Stop spitting in the face of Americans and maybe we will go to the movies.
Their silence is enough praise. Tacent, satis laudant. (Publius Terence
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Between the ages of 15 and 22, I had made only one very minor hit, so I expected everything to be a flop. I was utterly amazed that The Sound of Silence was a big hit.
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound-strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.
Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company worship Him mentally offer unto Him all the work you do you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of thosewho value silence.
Only silence perfects silence.
Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves.
I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf... there may be an uneasy silence.
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Stop walking away. Stop the Silence. Stop the name calling. Stop the blame game,
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
I lead a most dyspeptic, solitary, self-shrouded life consuming, if possible in silence, my considerable daily allotment of pain.
A minute of applause will sum up Jimmy's vibrancy more than a minute's silence. We would like to thank Peter Donald at the Scottish Football League and the match officials who have been first class. We appreciate their understanding and they have been extremely helpful.
In light of recent horrible events, we decided to expand the scope of our memorial to include those who have suffered so much on the Gulf Coast. We invite everyone in the Louisville area to join us, sit in silence, and light a candle to honor the memory of those who have died in terrorist activities or in natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
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