Top 100 Quotes About Saying Nothing
#1. Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle
Danielle LaPorte
#2. The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.
Arundhati Roy
#3. To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
Nicholas Mosley
#4. Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up.
Hermann Hesse
#5. The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
#6. ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? - Nothing.
Laurence Sterne
#7. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.
John Maynard Keynes
#8. I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
Regina King
#10. He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.
Anne Enright
#11. I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.
Big Daddy Kane
#12. Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.
Sandy Fussell
#13. It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin
#14. There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed,
Soledad O'Brien
#15. As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#16. You can't improve on saying nothing.
Golda Meir
#17. Of course he was a politician. He had a lot of experience in saying nothing in a hundred words or more.
Kaje Harper
#18. Gossip is the are of saying nothing in a way that leave practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
#19. A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
Frank Zappa
#20. Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.
Nelson Mandela
#21. Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl
Gregory Benford
#22. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
Javan
#24. Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#25. Many of us had lost everything and left saying nothing at all. All of us left wearing white numbered identification tags tied to our collars and lapels.
Julie Otsuka
#26. The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
Alan Alda
#27. An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.
Randall Jarrell
#28. He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?
Andrew Kreisberg
#29. We'd put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
Robert Frost
#31. I'm not like her. I don't steal people."
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing.
The silence made Victoria bristle. "Well, I don't.
Claire Legrand
#32. And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
Joe Eszterhas
#33. I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation.
Kathryn Stockett
#34. Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.
Ben Carson
#35. I wanted to ask her so many questions but I didn't because we don't talk to people anymore because saying something would be stranger than saying nothing to a stranger.
Tahereh Mafi
#36. Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?
Jack Kerouac
#37. It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace
the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#38. In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.
Evan Osnos
#39. Dr. Craig says you're the only patient he ever treated who kept saying nothing hurt when he examined you right until you passed out. You think I believe your ribs are all right?
Ellen O'Connell
#40. It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.
Marty Rubin
#41. If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.
Pierre Albert-Birot
#42. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed silence in an American theater. It's easy to believe that our audiences spend the day saying nothing, actually saving their voices for the moment the picture begins.
David Sedaris
#43. Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.
Kristin Hannah
#44. I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does.
Timothy Simons
#45. I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
Lee Child
#46. Philosophy? What good is that?" Isn't it the art of saying nothing with as many words as possible?
Brandon Sanderson
#47. Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
Seth Godin
#48. Beckett, you're doing this for people who don't even know you're protecting them. We're in the shade here. I can do this. Let me do this. I can't stand by and watch.
Beckett thought for a moment, saying nothing. Blake had taken the beating like a pro. Too good to be his first time.
Debra Anastasia
#49. It was his subconscious which told him this
that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.
Douglas Adams
#50. I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
William Shakespeare
#51. Minimalism is saying all by saying nothing.
Will Advise
#52. I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.
Nenia Campbell
#53. Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone De Beauvoir
#55. After saying all that, what have we said, my God, my life, my holy sweetness? What does anyone who speaks of you really say? Yet woe betide those who fail to speak, while the chatterboxes go on saying nothing.
Augustine Of Hippo
#56. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
#57. For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#58. As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.
Mortimer J. Adler
#60. Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people, that can be worse than saying nothing at all. For a non-believer, the words that are meant to console a religious person can do quite the opposite.
David G. McAfee
#61. Roselynn appraised Shane as she would an interesting rock, saying nothing. However, Roselynn was the sort much enamored of rocks.
Thomm Quackenbush
#62. There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.
Peter Cave
#63. I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.
Kevin McCarthy
#64. You know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.
Nikki Giovanni
#65. Oh, yes, I know, I am a great deal better," said Paul, "a very great deal better. Listen, Floy; what is it the sea keeps saying?" "Nothing, dear, it is only the rolling of the waves you hear.
Charles Dickens
#66. I must admit it's a surprise to find myself still here, still talking to you. I prefer to think of it as talking, although of course it isn't: I'm saying nothing, you're hearing nothing. The only thing between us is this black line: a thread thrown onto the empty page, into the empty air.
Margaret Atwood
#68. If you want moksha (ultimate liberation), then you simply need to understand what the Vitraag Lords (The Enlightened Ones) say. Just understand what the Vitraag Lords are saying, that is what they are saying, nothing else they want to say.
Dada Bhagwan
#69. Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?
Vince Vawter
#70. Saying nothing was preferable to saying too much. Well versed in the Bible, Lincoln may also have remembered the lines from Isaiah: "You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled."102
Harold Holzer
#71. I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.
Thomas De Quincey
#72. Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.
Augustine Of Hippo
#73. There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
Simon Van Booy
#74. I want someone to hold me in the dark beneath the blankets as I wail, saying nothing, only holding me tightly to their chest.
A.M. Caine
#75. And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity
Arthur Schopenhauer
#76. All I hear leave out more leave out all hear no more lie there in my arms the ancient without end me we're talking of me without end that buries all mankind to the last cunt they'd be good moments in the dark the mud hearing nothing saying nothing capable of nothing nothing
Samuel Beckett
#77. I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances.
Jennifer Brown
#78. There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
#79. [ ... ] the body is what we lean toward,
tensing as it darts, dancing away.
but it's the voice that enters us. even
saying nothing. even saying nothing
over and over absently to itself
Tracy K. Smith
#80. Adrian met my eyes for a long moment, saying nothing aloud yet somehow conveying a million messages.
Richelle Mead
#81. You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
#82. I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.
Brandon Boyd
#83. This is the beginning and the end of the world right here. Look at those patient Buddhas lookin at us saying nothing.
Jack Kerouac
#84. It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.
Richard Branson
#85. We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.
Jenny Han
#86. You can say nothing by saying everything.
You can say everything by saying nothing.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#88. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
#89. There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.
Sherwood Anderson
#90. She collected silence like other people collected strings. But she had a way of saying nothing that said it all.
Terry Pratchett
#92. There are times by you saying nothing, you tell me everything I need to know.
Mark W. Boyer
#93. perfectly in his mind that it felt like a memory. "Who killed her?" he asked quietly. Odilia stared straight ahead, saying nothing. The hymn ended and Whillans raised his hands. "Let us pray.
Mark Wheaton
#94. People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
William S. Burroughs
#95. Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#96. The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
Karen Joy Fowler
#97. Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease.
Iris Murdoch
#98. I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.
Caroline Kepnes
#99. It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.
Marty Rubin
#100. This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She
Justin Cronin
