T Quotes
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“The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.”
Source: Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them
“The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.”
Source: Snow
“The silence of the biblical writings about the Edomite deity provides circumstantial evidence for its identification with Yahweh. Further indications strengthen this claim.
First, Edom is qualified as 'the land of wisdom' in Jer. 49.7 and Obadiah 8. In a monotheistic context, it is difficult to assume that wisdom would have a source other than Yahweh. Furthermore, it seems that the book of Job, the main 'wisdom book' of the Bible, has an Edomite origin, thus strengthening the linkage between Edom and Yahweh.
Second, the worship of Yahweh in Edom is explicitly mentioned in Isa. 21.11 ('One is calling to me [Yahweh] from Seir'), and the duty of Yahweh in regard to his Edomite worshippers is stressed by Jer. 49.11 ('Leave [Edom] your orphans, I [Yahweh] will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me').
Third, according to the book of Exodus, Esau-Edom and not Jacob-Israel had to inherit Yahweh's benediction from Isaac (Exod. 27.2-4). This suggests that, before emergence of the Israelites alliance, Esau was the 'legitimate trustee' of the Yahwistic traditions.
[Fourth]: The Israelite nazirim (the men self-consecrated to Yahweh in Israel) are compared by Jeremiah to the Edomites: 'For thus says the LORD: If those [the Israelite nazirim] who do not deserve to drink the cup still have to drink it, shall you [Edom] be the one to go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished; you must drink it.' Such a parallel between the elite of the Israelite worshippers (nazirim) and the Edomite people as a whole also suggests that Edom was the first 'land of Yahweh'.
[Fifth]: The primacy of Edom did not disappear quickly from the Israelite collective memory. This point is clearly stressed by Amos (9.11-12): 'On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and repair its breaches and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old; in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom...'
Together, these five points suggest the conclusion that Yahweh was truly the main (if not the only) deity worshipped in Edom. In this case, it is likely that (1) the name of Yahweh was not used publicly in Edom, and (2) 'Qos' was an Edomite epithet for Yahweh rather than an autonomous deity. (pp. 391-392)
from 'Yahweh, the Canaanite God of Metallurgy?', JSOT 33.4 (2009): 387-404”
“The silence of the envious is too noisy.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“The Silence of the Final Goodbye
I knew you best from the silences,
The time and space in between,
The moment before our lips touched,
The way your arms went up in the air before you laughed,
The smile that we shared before we talked,
The redness on your face before your tears,
The sensation of your arms around me after you released the embrace.
The look you gave me before you walked away,
Nothing had ever been so painful,
No words could say what your eyes told me,
When I wake in the morning without you,
It’s the first thing I hear…
The silence of the final goodbye.”
“The silence of the forest is different; the silence of the desert is different; the silence of the cave is different! Silences in different places are not the same silences because silence is not only the absence of the sounds but also it is the presence of different feelings in the absence of the sounds!”
“The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.”
Source: Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage
“The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people”
“The silence of the Great Bedchamber was vast. Vast as night and all its stars. Ead heard each rustle of silk, each brush of hand on skin on sheets. Their breaths were hushed, held in anticipation of a knock on the door, a key in the lock, and a torch to bare their union. It would light a flame of scandal, and the fire would rise until it scorched them both.
But Ead called fire her friend, and she would plunge into the furnace for Sabran Berethnet, for just one night with her. Let them come with their swords and their torches.
Let them come.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“The silence of the intelligent is better than the speech of the ignorant.”
“The silence of the Left, or the exclusive focus of the Left, on America's alleged crimes over the past half-century, the disdainful sneering at America's deplorable 'Cold War mentality' - none of this has to be reassessed in light of the evidence of genocides that surpassed Hitler's, all in the name of a Marxist ideology. An ideology that doesn't need to be reassessed. As if it was maybe just an accident that Marxist-Leninist regimes turned totalitarian and genocidal. No connection there.”
“The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.”
“The silence of the night awakens my soul”
“The silence of the room was shattered with a wail of pain coming from deep within me.”
Source: Snakes And Earrings
“The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.”
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“The silence outside was reflected by a growing silence within. Any interior monologue quietened to a whisper, then faded away entirely.”
Source: Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills
“The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.”
Source: The Quotable Thoreau
“The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.”
Source: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
“The silence seems primordial. The black sky in the east now shows blood red through scalloped shelves of cloud. It broadens into an orange flare that fades to rose and finally to the grays of dawn. The voices begin again. ~~Crossing Open Ground”
Source: Across Open Ground
“The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.”
Source: Days of Blood & Starlight
“The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.”
Source: Crazy for Milk
“The silence stretched out, heartbeat after heartbeat – taut, excruciating. And then, finally, came the first sound: a slow, deliberate clapping. Startled, Maddy opened her eyes to see Harvir leaning back in his desk, his dark gaze steady on her as his hands came together, unhurried, almost leisurely, announcing his approval. A second later, from across the room, Kara joined in, followed by August, and Paul and Jeremy and Theresa. Ms. Mousumi got to her feet with a broad smile on her face, then Rhonda began to applaud, and Nikki. Not everyone followed suit – Ken continued to sit stonefaced, as did Julie and her retinue. David, too, remained motionless, staring at his desktop. Elliot gazed out the classroom windows; Sheng played with a pen. Still, the heartbeat clapping continued on, and Maddy realized she would never forget the gift of it. If it didn’t include everyone, it was enough. She had her soul back.”
Source: The Pain Eater
“The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the delicate camaraderie they are building. He steals glances instead, watching the way the light falls over her skin. Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime.”
“The silence that followed,
much like me,
was short lived.”
Source: Ned Finally Died
“The silence that followed was louder than anything they had said.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”
“The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.”
Source: Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms that Summon You from Self to Community
“The silence trauma imposes is its most insidious weapon. Finding your voice is the first, most powerful act of rebellion.”
“The silence was absolute.
It was so quiet in the laboratory; you could have heard a cell divide.”
Source: Brid: Fight or Flight
“The silence was always the greates temptation.”
“The silence was an intense roar.”
Source: Some postwar American writers
“The silence was beautiful and we both understood that it was not worth breaking it, because there was more sense in this silence than if one of us started filling the moment with empty words. That was a crime which neither of us dared to commit.”
Source: Petrichor
“The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.”
Source: Summing Up
“The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.”
“The silence was more profound than that of midnight: and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence, because, the light being broad and strong, as that of noon-day at other seasons of the year, it seems to differ from perfect day, chiefly because man is not yet abroad: and thus, the peace of nature, and of the innocent creatures of God, seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man, and his restless and unquiet spirit, are not there to trouble its sanctity.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.”
“The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.”
Source: The Human Script
“The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light.”
Source: The Assassin's Blade
“The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.”
“The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worse
than any danger.”
Source: This Hostile Land
“The silence wasn’t a setback—it was sacred space. I stopped begging for connection and started building communion.”
“The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“The silence went beyond awkward into something else.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The silence you gave me was louder than any fight we ever had.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him?”
Source: Ghostwritten
“The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.”