#silence

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? ↗

#better way #entertain #golden #him #listen

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#fashion #great #great things #silence #themselves

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#ground #now #silence #speak #surrender

If I asked you to do something for me, I don't suppose you'd listen?" When he had my attention, he continued, "I'm going to take you home. Try to forget tonight happened. Try to act normal, especially around Hank. Don't mention my name." By way of an answer, I shot him a black look and swung out of the Tahoe. He followed suit, coming around to my side. "What kind of answer is that?" He asked, but his voice wasn't nearly so gruff. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#funny #hush-hush #nora-and-patch #nora-grey #patch-cipriano

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#deepest #feeling #itself #restraint #shows

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#frightens #infinite #me #silence #spaces

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#always #believed #i #i always #long

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗