#silence

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#man #ready #recall #repeat #silence

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

#darkened #decay #entered #gigantic #hung

Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#communication

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#airwaves #attempts #because #care #discussions

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#silence #ultimate #weapon

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#silence #speech #story #told

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#manageable #more #persons #silence #simply

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#man #silence #wonderful