Quotes About Observing Silence

#1. When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

Pierre Corneille

#2. You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done ... I am only interested in the present.

Al Hirschfeld

#3. He smiles. Shifts forward.
'You're fascinating," he whispers.
I nearly choke on my saliva.

Katy Evans

#4. He wants you and Rayna both to stay away until he announces the ceremony. I told him you had plenty to keep you occupied until then."
"What do you mean?"
"Are you brainless as a reef, minnow? You can have Emma now. Why you're wasting your time here in Eggland-Galen? Galen, wait for me!

Anna Banks

#5. The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

Ken Mehlman

#6. Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Gabe Newell

#7. I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

John Francis

#8. For a long time they sat in silence, observing the huddles of juvenile reeds peeking through the water's surface, and watching the scores of bank-rooted daisies nodding their dainty heads in time with the gentle breeze.

Jack Croxall

#9. My dear ... " he said almost tenderly, "you haven't begun to learn the worst of me.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. Lucid dreams often feel like this - as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

Laurie Nadel

#11. People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

Marissa Meyer

#12. There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Dan Hicks

#13. His lips graze my neck as he leans in. Oooh, now I know you are trying to get fucked. But you have to know by now, I like to make you suffer for it. So you're going to wait a little longer before I give you my cock, Mia.

Nina G. Jones

#14. I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

Eric Davis

#15. Because.
Everything
worth anything
takes time.

Christy Hall

#16. Eating healthy and keeping hydrated does wonders; it centers my mood and helps me keep a sharp mind.

Betsy Landin

#17. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

#19. Think with your eyes open.

Shelly Crane