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" A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. "
Richard Powers
" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. "
Wangari Maathai
" After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. "
Mason Cooley
" After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.' "
Bob Peterson
" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "
Aldous Huxley
" After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. "
Dino De Laurentiis
" Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. "
Margaret Sanger
" A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. "
John Tillotson
" A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed. "
Faith Salie
" All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment. "
David Whyte
" A man is known by the silence he keeps. "
Oliver Herford
" A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. "
Phillips Brooks
" America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. "
Laurie Helgoe
" And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. "
George Washington Cable
" And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there. "
Robert Scheer
" And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. "
William Rose Benet
" And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. "
Jonathan Franzen
" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "
T. S. Eliot
" Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great. "
Anna Netrebko
" A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. "
Jimmy Reid
" As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. "
Paul Robeson
" As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. "
Gloria Estefan
" As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others. "
Katharine Viner
" As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. "
Brian Williams
" A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. "
Jean Stafford
" As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I am all too aware of the real meaning of the list and of its purpose. Promoted by Turning Point USA, the list is not simply designed to expose professors who discriminate; it is designed to silence and smear. "
Anthea Butler
" As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, 'I lived there.' So we used it like a bludgeon. "
Nathan Englander
" A story is told as much by silence as by speech. "
Susan Griffin
" A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. "
Emile M. Cioran
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