#silence

It is tact that is golden, not silence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#silence #tact

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#faith #secrets #silence #tell #tested

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America? ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#because #current #defend #difficult #environment

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#art #being #destiny #friend #go

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#content #focus #i #images #inadequate

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#silence #solitude #art

Silence, too, can be torture. ↗

— Justina Chen

#silence #torture #beauty

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. ↗

— George Saunders

#nature #silence #beauty

With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow. ↗

— Paul Celan

#silenced #snow #word #change

Some of the most awesome and meaningful conversations happen sans the need for words. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#communication