“Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,
Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost
Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.”
Source: The Sittaford Mystery
“[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.”
“When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!”
“What can you talk to sky? Just nothing...simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing....enjoy the waves.”
“When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.”
Source: Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
“Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.”
Source: Fiddler's Green
“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.”
Source: The War of Words