No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
Yes, you are flame, but I surround and love you,
Always extend beyond you, cool, eternal,
To take you into my heart's great void of silence.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
They only babble who practice not reflection. I shall think and thought is silence.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use silence, exile and cunning.
What I know is the reality of the internal struggle. You don't know who you can go to. ... There are people in silence right now. They can't speak. We need to break the silence.
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard; In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas; Among the farthest Hebrides.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
There is the silence of those unjustly punished;
And the silence of the dying whose hand
Suddenly grips yours.
Silence is wonderful to listen to.
People who really understood the use of space and the fact that the sound and the silence are of equal weight and that what you're doing is really manipulating space. It's the same as a painting except that you're doing it aurally.
After a few moments of complete silence, I heard the following words uttered with sighs from weather-bitten lips, "Shed not tears, my beloved; love that opens our eyes and enslaves our hearts can give us the blessing of patience.
The dahlias sleep in the empty silence.
a moment of silence is nothing more than a code word for prayer.
Silence is best.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
If people do decide to stay at home from work, we invite them to stay at home and stay at home with their families. It's not a festive day. It's a day of silence and of abstinence.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.
Media organizations and journalists' families face a wall of silence and an unfeeling bureaucracy that refuses to give clear and credible answers to questions.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
New Year's eve is like every other night there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights
I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of JJ is dictated by what happens with Guidant.
But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, How did it all begin, science answers, Probably by an accident. To the question, How will it all end, science answers, Probably by an accident. And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, Why are we here and, to the question, What moral instructions do you give us, the science-god maintains silence.
This is the silence of astounded souls.
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.
. . . You were aimed from birthyou will never be alone. Rainwill come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --that's what the silence meant you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe.
His record, his silence, and the power of the position to which he's been nominated, make John Roberts a dangerous bet one that senators shouldn't take.
The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
We can ride somewhere together for two hours and not say a word. But it's a very comfortable silence.
This is a way to break the silence. It's one thing to know you've been sexually assaulted, but it's another thing to see it in writing. It may seem like a small thing, but it can truly be a big step.
Burglars and bad guys don't like noise. Silence is their friend. They don't want to see lights. They don't want to see noise.
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
There are no words that can be spoken to shatter the darkness. What is left is silence, and the dawn must creep at its own pace as we wait. There are no words for how we feel. The silence of the night is the only thing that captures it, and dawn the only thing to set it free. So we wait....
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