Quotes 41 till 60 of 165.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
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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.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
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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. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
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In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
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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.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspensed, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
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It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 44
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