The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
I feel like there’s a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we’ve evened out. And I don’t need to even that out because if somebody’s being negative, I need to be the better person.
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world’s most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple’s silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
In ‘Silence,’ there was no improvisation at all; really, you’re dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.
As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, ‘I lived there.’ So we used it like a bludgeon.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There’s something about holding that richness.
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
My perfect partner has to understand my silence as well as my needs, this is a very important factor for me.
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.
In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
When I’m sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it’s silence and despair! It’s not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
I’ve seen ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ like, fifty or sixty times. That’s my favorite movie of all time.
It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump’s latest racism are telling you who they really are.
Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
‘The Look of Silence’ is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It’s distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing – literally, silence can kill.
What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit, and then seeing Earth outside my window.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
There’s a degree of deception in silence.
Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
I’m familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
I am rather inclined to silence.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Silence is the most powerful state.
In a relationship when things are really great you don’t need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don’t know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don’t want to stop talking because you don’t want to lose one another.
They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
In horror movies today it’s lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Silence is so accurate.
Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it’s more powerful to leave you with nothing.
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
Only silence perfects silence.
The silence of the room is as important as the music.
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute’s silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that’s when the silence comes closer; that’s when next isn’t the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people – so ignoring it doesn’t make a difference.
I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.
I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs.’
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The old strategy of suffering in silence could not have been more misguided.
‘Silence Kid’ starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It’s funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren’t skillful rock stars. Then it’s spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it’s over.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Turgenev’s achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy.
