Top 20 Silence Response Quotes
#1. Other response, he said, I make thee not,
Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
#2. When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that's Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life's great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.
A.J. Darkholme
#5. The Soviet response was silence, followed by bellicose denial, followed by efforts to derail the international investigation. It was eight years after the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia acknowledged the truth.
Anonymous
#6. Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
Veronica Roth
#7. To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette
#8. Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup.
Richard Russo
#9. One of the rudest questions you might hear from an American is "What do you do for a living?" The only proper response is "Excuse me?" followed by a self-satisfied smirk and a stony silence. Then they assume that you are independently wealthy and grovel shamefully.
Dmitry Orlov
#10. Often silence is the most dignified response.
Emily Nelson
#12. My heart was breaking in response to his silence.
Amy Clipston
#14. Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.
T.F. Hodge
#15. When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence.
Dan Brown
#16. The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Ariel Gore
#17. And he paused, aware at last of the gathering weight of the silence. Fourteen images stared at him, without any of them offering a word in response.
Bakst said sharply, "You have talked of freedom. You have it!"
Then, uncertainly, he said, "Isn't that what you want?
Isaac Asimov
#18. Silence doesn't mean he or she doesn't know the answer. Just in time, you will know what his or her response.
Shim Steward
#19. I think we should always remember that reading
the experience of a book
is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.
Lloyd Alexander
#20. Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
Amy Neftzger
