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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.
And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.
Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.