#silence

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#artist #citizen #come #i #me

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.' ↗

— Al Roker

#college #first #followed #greeted #me

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

#dead #deep #does #expressive #hearts

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

#citizens #had #individuals #instead #life

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#between #conversations #counts #friends #make

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. ↗

— William Shatner

#germanic #name #partly #passion #perhaps

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conceal #hear #imperfections #men #other

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#most #perfect #scorn #silence

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#came #hanging #picture #precise #silence