#silence

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fully #gift #go #human #possible

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#golden #good #silence #think #you

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. ↗

— Kate Adie

#democracy #good #information #never #secrecy

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#i #like #loner #lose #silence

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#beautifully #bit #breath #come #end

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#end #many #middle #note #silence

Silence is best. ↗

— John Hewson

#silence

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#born #deep #hearts #joy #silence

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. ↗

— Epictetus

#keep #most #must #only #part