Adam Hochschild Quotes, Silence Quotes, Trying Quotes

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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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

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Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

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Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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

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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Silence Quotes , Progressive Quotes

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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Moving Quotes , Silence Quotes

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

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To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

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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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