Sometimes Silence Is Better Quotes

#1. Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#2. It's your turn to talk," Tod said when several seconds had elapsed in pensive, angry silence from the hellion. "Negotiation is like playing tennis with words instead of balls. I thought you'd be better at this, considering your apparent lack of balls.

Rachel Vincent

#3. Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

Igor Levit

#5. I'm Violet," I growl. "I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it."
Total silence.
Then someone mutters, "Is she talking about her virginity?"
In retrospect, I realize I could have worded that better.

Nicole Christie

#6. Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Silence, nothing is better.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#8. Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

Albert Camus

#9. and Bill broke a cheerful silence for the first time to say he wished he hadn't lost his ocarina with his kit, because he had never had a better one.

Angela Thirkell

#10. It was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Lord Acton

#12. Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Roxane Gay

#13. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

#14. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

Judith Orloff

#15. I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

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

Robin Hobb

#17. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

#18. Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. Sometimes his silence is better than anyone else's words.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. In moments of high emotion, whether they're triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment, if the next thing you are going to say makes you feel better, than it's probably the wrong thing to say.

Amor Towles

#21. I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

Anthony Liccione

#22. Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word.

Ina Catrinescu

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

Pope Benedict XVI

#25. Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself."14

Walter Isaacson

#26. Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#27. Sometimes stunned silence is better than applause.

Jenny Lawson

#28. Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#29. There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

Randeep Hooda

#30. A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

Saint Francis De Sales

#31. Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Linda Ellerbee

#32. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Saint Francis De Sales

#33. There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.

Mitch Lucker

#34. Making love requires no thought. You move as the fronds of a palm tree move in the breeze. It is all instinct. All wonder. When you love someone, your lips are incomplete until they are oiled by a kiss. You can say 'I love you' a thousand ways but you can say it better with silence and a kiss.

Chloe Thurlow

#35. But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn't make you matter any less.

A. Lynn

#36. Watching Nadia rest peacefully in my embrace, I am reminded that it is the woman who is marveled upon, where man kneels in silence to honor and respect; and it is that same marvel that cures a good man into being a better man if not the world.

Luccini Shurod

#37. Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Pythagoras

#38. I don't argue; I listen in silence with love. My silence answers better than my voice.

Debasish Mridha