Top 31 Eloquent Silence Quotes
#2. I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.
Mary Baker Eddy
#3. 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.
Mark Twain
#5. Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
Pat Conroy
#6. My fans aren't obsessed. They're just incredible and devoted.
Justin Bieber
#7. Hands were such extraordinary tools, she mused. Tools, weapons, clumsy and deft, numb and tactile. Among tribal hunters, they could speak, a flurry of gestures eloquent in silence. But they could not taste. Could not hear. Could not weep. For all that, they killed so easily.
Steven Erikson
#8. The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
Washington Irving
#9. He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent
silence.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#10. a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.
Sanober Khan
#11. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Joseph Joubert
#12. Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.
Billy Graham
#14. To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone De Beauvoir
#17. On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.
Frederick Franck
#18. I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
Don Henley
#19. You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.
Pell James
#20. The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
George Santayana
#22. The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
#23. The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
Bill Vaughan
#24. The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She hoped it would teach their own girls that they need not chatter like magpies.
Edith Wharton
#25. Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
Mignon McLaughlin
#27. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech.
A.W. Tozer
#28. I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.
Albert Belle
#29. I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.
Janel Parrish
#30. If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
Suzanne Vega
#31. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
Sri Chinmoy