#silence

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#important #know #life #should #shut

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#complete #dawn #haven #monks #silence

Silence is the mother of truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#silence #truth

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating

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

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way. ↗

— Loretta Young

#i #little #my own #out #own

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#despite #every #fault #had #i

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#depends #power #rapist #silence #women

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#distracting #me #more #silence #solitude