I Choose Silence Quotes

#1. I wish not to tell you how I feel,
I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

Sanhita Baruah

#2. Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.

Bill Jensen

#3. Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?

Neil Young

#4. People who sit and expects miracles are wicked.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs - and save ourselves first.

Harriet Lerner

#6. There are times when God sends thunder to stir us. There are times when God sends blessings to lure us. But then there are times when God sends nothing but silence as he honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity.

Max Lucado

#7. Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak - and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#9. Silence is always with us. But we do not choose silence, silence chooses us. If you are called to be silent on your journey, recognize the invitation as a great gift. It is a gift to be shared with others. Your relationship to silence is one thing that will define the uniqueness of your journey.

John Francis

#10. In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What if?" is the question fiction asks. That's the question I'm more interested in.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. These were lobbyists - many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Ron Suskind

#12. When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.

Deepak Chopra

#13. The means of choice:
She might choose to ascend
The falling dream,
By some angelic power without a name
Reverse the motion, plunge into upwardness,
Know height without an end,
Density melt to air, silence yield a voice
Within her fall she felt the pull of Grace.

May Sarton

#14. You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

Natalie Massenet

#15. Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Mallory Ortberg

#17. It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'

Amelia Warner

#18. that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

Okey Ndibe

#19. Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

Deepak Chopra

#20. I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

Anton Yelchin

#21. The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

Frans De Waal

#22. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.

Kevin Michel

#24. When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

Christina Baldwin

#25. How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God's will and another is just cultural differences? What if it's all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

Trevor D. Richardson

#26. We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Brad Stevens

#27. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#28. To choose to write is to reject silence.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#29. It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

Robin Hobb

#30. In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

#31. You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

Charlie Viracola

#32. I love lion but he seems to be noisy. Silence is better than roar! so I choose LION FISH. He has no value of roar but has a damage reflection upon tackled.

Deh Gel

#33. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

James Russell Lowell

#34. A candid, honest and pure answer.

Maki Minami

#35. History isn't a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others. Human

Yuval Noah Harari

#36. Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

Blake Lewis

#37. ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH WE ARE AWAKE,IF WE ARE TO GRASP THE REALITY OF OUR LIFE WHILE WE HAVE IT,WE WILL NEED TO WAKE UP TO OUR MOMENTS,OTHERWISE,WHOLE DAYS,EVEN A WHOLE LIFE COULD SLIP BY UNNOTICED..

Henry David Thoreau

#38. I shook my head to test for a hangover but it seemed that my alcohol-processing enzymes had done their job adequately.

Graeme Simsion