The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
A lot of black men get in desperate situations because they don’t see any other avenues to make it. You make a couple of mistakes today, that’s all she wrote. You’re not going to get a good job; nobody’s gonna hire a felon. You can’t even vote. They just want to silence you.
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz – a true rhapsody in blue – are hunted to the edge of silence.
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky’s starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
There hasn’t been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.
Big-Tech oligarchs, who silence liberty loving Patriots, have no place in the land of the free.
You see, ‘The Look of Silence’ is the first film ever made where survivors confront perpetrators who still hold a monopoly on power. It’s normally never done because it is too dangerous.
The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.
Conversations are an essential part of our daily lives. One cannot imagine life without talking or hearing. But somewhere between the hearing and saying part lies the beautiful silence.
When I get by the ocean, that’s the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.
I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don’t necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, ‘You are trying to silence us.’ I don’t deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.
I’m a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it’s way more relaxing to have dead silence.
People are never quiet. It’s go, go, go. I’m a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Great souls suffer in silence.
I’ve put everything in my rearview mirror and I’ve continued to silence people. That’s how I’m going to… continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.
I’ve always been the king of silence. I’ve always been a minimalist comedian. I’ve taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that… I’ve always done ‘less is more.’
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
I have to make sure that I don’t silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of ‘What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?’ For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I’m in the public eye.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists, it is alleged, have bandied together to prevent debate or discussion of ‘mass immigration’ into the U.K., caused by Labour’s ‘open door’ policies.
I like peace and solitude and silence.
I don’t listen to music when I write. I need silence.
I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she’s breaking her silence, my heart stops.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Sit with silence a lot – real silence, where nothing is happening – because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.
We believe… that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone’s silence.
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
What’s beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.
Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there’s not one minute of silence during the show. It’s pretty intense.
I’ve got a quiet voice. I think it’s because as a child I didn’t speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
There’s something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone – I just… I love that.
Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
Some things we must pass over in silence.
I don’t like to read contemporary fiction while writing – I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don’t want a jumble of other people’s voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don’t create static in that silence.
I’m very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren’t talking on stage. I’m interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
There’s a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I’ve broken our code of silence.
‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
Introspection, or ‘sitting in the silence,’ is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us – inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences – must not be permitted to succeed.
I don’t listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
I think I should have made ‘Dead Silence’ as an independent movie.
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
