T Quotes
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“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“The silences in conversation honor and support the words they carry, as water supports the vessels that float on it. Only in silence can the "listening into" take place - the pausing over words, meanings, implications, associations - and the waiting - for the Spirit to speak, for the right response to a surface. At its deepest level, good conversation holds a balance we seek in prayer between speaking and listening, waiting for the unplanned, epiphanic moment that comes unbidden in the midst of what we thought we were pursuing. Those silences also distinguish substantive conversation from idle chatter that fills all the "air time" available, often as a protection against the silences in which a new thought might take us where we're not sure we want to go. When silences are allowed, conversation can rise to the level of sacred encounter.”
Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
“The silences weren’t awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him.”
“The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.”
Source: Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History
“The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.”
“The silent bear no witness against themselves.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways”
“The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.”
“The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.”
“The silent killer does not weep over our children; instead, it sucks the life out of them until it has fully destroyed our children with the burden of stress and worries. This is what a child should not have to endure.”
“The silent killer’s home is a dark place and it swallows our children by taking them deeper into a dungeon of lies. It changes our children and leads them into a shadowy place which sometimes is a road that has no return. That road is a never-ending road of darkness.”
“The silent killer takes hold of our children to make them feel unworthy, to the point that the child we once knew who was so loving, kind, happy, always smiling and filled with joy is now depressed and shattered into a trillion pieces, and who has suicidal thoughts.”
“The silent killer ties our children’s tongues to the extent that our children do not seek help. It numbs our children’s minds to only think negative thoughts. The silent killer hypnotizes their lives to the point that our children cannot recognize themselves anymore. The darkness of the silent killer pushes our children to their breaking point, and sometimes to the point of death.”
“The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.”
“The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.”
“The silent man is no longer a sign of contradiction; he is just one man too many. Someone who speaks has importance and value, whereas another who keeps quiet gets little consideration. The silent man is reduced to nothingness. The simple act of speaking imparts value. Do the words make no sense? It makes no difference.”
Source: The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
“The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.”
“THE SILENT PEOPLE
Some people are so rude,
Living their lives with no concern for others,
Or possibly just intent on pissing other people off-
Annoying everyone around them.
The silent people-
Want to kill them-
And drive forks into their skulls-
Create weapons of extreme torture-
And scream from the top of their lungs-
"SHUT UP."
But words are not spoken-
And attention is not given.
Though annoyance is apparent,
The annoying keep on living.”
Source: Uninhibited From Lust To Love
“The silent person is the strongest person if he/she takes the chance .”
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema”
Source: Hitchcock
“The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“The silent treatment is a deafening and cruel abuse tactic”
“The silent treatment is a very personal and hurtful attack on the non-gamblers with a loud, clear message: "Don't try to interfere with my gambling, I can inflict great pain if you do." This game puts all of the power once again in the hands of the gambler.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“The 'silent treatment' is used, to punish another person, by someone who, most likely, was raised in a dysfunctional family.”
“The silent yard
It was a place that filled hearts with feelings of repentance,
And many hearts it filled with feelings of joy without any pretense,
Because here at this place, there were no boundations of precepts,
Everything vanished, all dogmas, all stigmas; and all conventional concepts,
Here nobody uttered words callously to sound glib,
Here it did not matter if one was or was not created from someone’s rib,
Because in this place everything seemed retrogressive,
Yet it was the only way life could stay progressive,
It was the graveyard where the dead were buried,
A place where time never rushes, because here I have never felt gusts of wind that hurried,
A place of complete silence with omnipresent surrealness,
That reminds you of those whom you loved or knew, and now they rest in time’s stillness,
Here every human feeling lies condensed in every grave,
Because they accommodate the loving, the diabolic, the sinners, the good, the bad, the dastards and the brave,
So, whenever I walk past any grave I silently summon all human feelings,
And I feel their every sentiment, their joys, their pains, their happiness and their grievings,
Today the graveyard looked at me from one grave that looked old,
Perhaps it belonged to someone who once felt all these feelings and now he rests in the time’s pause, a perpetual hold,
Maybe I will never know him, but only through the epitaph carved on the graveyard stone,
So I pray for his departed soul and I wish him company of good souls in that dark world where even Gods can feel alone!
So rest in peace now, and know the new forever,
There where time ends to begin anew and becomes yours in ways newer!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.”
“The Silicon Valley companies are not understating that they are so politically and socially and culturally central in the world. They would probably never have thought that they would become like this. But now that they are, what are they gonna do about it? I have a lots of friends who work in these companies: it's about taking responsibility.”
“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”
“The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.”
“The Silk Worm
I stood before a silk worm one day.
And that night my heart said to me,
"I can do things like that, I can spin skies,
I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;
I can be soft against a crying face,
I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet
throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred."
And I replied to my heart,
"Dear, can you really do all those things?"
And it just nodded "Yes" in silence.
So we began and will never cease.”
“The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.”
“The Silken Trap by Stewart Stafford
Beware chimera beauty's charm!
Faux-demure, eyes downcast.
A raging rutting season over her;
Spideress-gossamer entrapped.
She casts bait with arid hooks,
Covertly spinning sentient silk,
Soon swept up/wed/heirs sired—
Promulgating the snare's traffic.
A flash fire of rival suitors ignites,
Fans herself to mask her smirk,
The webbed game her hand to play—
Vault’s hasp clicks shut on her pulse.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.”
Source: The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Hardcover Edition)
“The silky swirl of his tongue in the hollow of her navel sent fire licking through her veins. Hazily aware of the area his mouth was traversing, she stirred beneath him.
Not seeming to realize just where he was kissing her, Matthew persisted, sliding lower until Daisy let out a muffled yelp and pushed hard at his encroaching head.
“What is it?” he asked, rising to his elbows.
Crimson with mortification, Daisy could hardly bring herself to explain. “You were too close to my…well, you accidentally…”
As her voice faded, understanding dawned in Matthew’s eyes. Quickly he bent his head to hide his expression, and a tremor ran through his shoulders. He replied with great care, still looking away from her. “It wasn’t accidental. I meant to do that.”
Daisy was astonished. “But you were going to kiss me right on my—” She broke off as his gaze met hers, laughter dancing in his blue eyes.
He wasn’t embarrassed at all—he was amused.
“You’re not shocked, are you?” he asked. “I thought you were well read.”
“Well, no one would ever write about something like that.”
He shrugged, his eyes glowing. “You’re the literary authority.”
“You’re making fun of me,” she said.
“Just a little,” he whispered, and kissed her stomach again. Her legs jerked against his restraining hands.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.”
Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”
“The silliness and greatness of porn: Imagine monkeys sitting around looking at pictures of each other’s butts on the Internet. That’s porn. That is what we are doing.”
Source: sciVive
“The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.”
“The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).”
“The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.”
“The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.”
Source: Thesauricus Siluricus: The flora and fauna of the Silurian period. With addenda (from recent acquisitions).
“The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.”
“The silver corslet shimmered before his eyes like the light upon a rippling sea. Carefully he took it off and held it up, and the gems on it glittered like stars, and the sound of the shaken rings was like the tinkle of rain in a pool.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel”
“The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.”
“The silver lining of Brexit and Trump is that it has undermined the perception that globalization is an unstoppable force, whether or not we think it is a good thing or a bad thing. There have always been losers and as well as winners in this process, and cultural minorities have been among the most vulnerable losers. Now that sizable numbers of people in the most advanced economies have made their grievances felt in a fashion that is hard to ignore.”
“The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.”
Source: The School for Scandal: A Comedy
“The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.”