Horace Quotes, Communication Quotes, Silence Quotes

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Pride Quotes , Silence Quotes

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Father Quotes , Silence Quotes

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Men Quotes , Silence Quotes

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

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Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

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Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Silence Quotes , Trying Quotes

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Party Quotes , Silence Quotes

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

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Meditation is the action of silence.

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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Silence Quotes , Trying Quotes

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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