The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
277 – Quotation by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tag Archives: silence
1442 Quotation By Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
1429 Quotation By Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
168 Quotation By Benjamin Disraeli
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
468 Quotation By George Eliot
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
by George Eliot
705 Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
62 – Labyrinth Movie Quote by Sarah
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had be particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help!
“Say your right words,” the goblins said, “and we’ll take the baby to the castle, and you will be free!” But the girl knew, that the Goblin King would keep the baby in his castle for ever and ever and ever, and turn it into a goblin! And so the girl suffered in silence. Until one day, when she was tired from a day of housework, and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother, and she could no longer stand it…
I can bear it no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be take this child of mine far away from me!
Sarah
Labyrinth Movie – Jennifer Connelly
86 – Quotes from Archer
Sterling Archer: Hey, you idiots wanna hear my plan or not? { Silence } Alright… Suggestions.
Cyril Figgis: About what?
Sterling Archer: What are we talking about… Stopping my mother from selling ISIS to ODIN!
Cyril Figgis: You said you had a plan.
Sterling Archer: My plan is to crowdsource a plan!
103 – Quotation by Elbert Hubbard
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
82 – Quotation by Judy Garland
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Quotes About Confidence
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniuses rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success comes in cans, not cant’s.
Author Unknown
Put your future in good hands – your own.
Author Unknown
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Author Unknown
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wendy Wasserstein
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall
Self Discoveries Quotations
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.
Robert Brault
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Boris Pasternak
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e.e. cummings
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.
Tom Masson
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Shirley MacLaine
13 – Shrek Movie Quote by Donkey
Y’know, me too. That’s another thing we have in common. I hate it when you’ve got someone in your face, you try to give someone a hint and they won’t leave, and then there’s that big awkward silence…
Donkey – Shrek Movie
219 – Quotation by T. S. Eliot
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
197 – Quotation from Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
95 – Quotation of Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.
10 – Quote of Samuel Beckett
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.
Thoughts about Friendship
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau