Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Pope Boniface VIII
Quotes , Source: Decretals (bk. V, 12, 43), taken from the Canon Law
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A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
Edward H. Richards
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
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See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
Marcel Marceau
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But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we
give no just occasion for them.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: in the "Tatler", no. 133
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
[It., Alta vendetta
D'alto silenzio e figlia.]
Vittorio Alfieri
Quotes , Source: La Congiura de' Pazzi (I, 1)
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Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the
wise.
[Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du
sage.]
Pope Boniface VIII
Quotes , Source: Decretals (bk. V, 12, 43), taken from the Canon Law
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There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: Battle of the Baltic
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Speech is great; but silence is greater.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence
that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow
as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Memoir of the Life of Scott
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