Silence Holds Quotes

#1. Your silence holds the mysterious and beautiful secrets of your life. Feel it, love it, adore it, live it, and enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

James Hervey

#3. The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

R.S. Thomas

#4. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.

John Allison

#6. Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Robert Fripp

#7. Hey now," Maahes said. "Don't be making that face. Okay? You start crying, I start crying, and I look like a total freak when I cry. Nothing worse than a big-ass man blubbering like a baby. Totally kills my chances with the women. You know?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#9. Reaches past her back and holds one of her hands. Silence

Pete Hamill

#10. Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

R. K. Milholland

#11. Each poem holds the voice of a moment.
Held within, they are contained, damned to silence;
released, they fly into the world to find a new heart and a new home within,
where they will speak again.

Noa Daniels

#12. Judge Rountree holds half my property in the palm of his hand." Denton's growl broke the silence. "I'd appreciate if you didn't insult him at all, much less in his own home."
"He named his children One, Two, Three, and Four," she said. "He deserves to be insulted.

Deeanne Gist

#13. My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

Scott McClellan

#14. Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

David Pratt

#15. Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.

William Thoms

#17. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

Hilary Mantel

#18. And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

Ogden Nash

#19. I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.

Silas House

#20. Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.

Melina Marchetta

#21. Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

Elliott Abrams

#22. Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Robert Fripp

#23. Darkness is a strange thing - it is both infinite and confining; it holds you tight in its grasp, but it holds you suspended in a void. Silence operates in a similar way. Slowly the two combine to become a threat.
("Come Into My Parlour")

Reggie Oliver

#24. Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable ... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

Marie Howe

#25. The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you'll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

Jeanette Coron