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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?
Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.
Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.
Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.
The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.
The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.
Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.