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But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
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.
If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.
The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.
I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees.
The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.
There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.