Best silence & asks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.”

Persons Science Asks Religious Simple Silence Scientist Silent Profound Simplicity Religious Person

Author:Kedar Joshi

“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.”

Men Looks Home America Form Asks House Voice Rooms Silence Rights Air Strange Activity Dignity Spread Determined Cruelty Censorship Sheep Committees Caucus

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.”

Children Asks Jesus Silence Tears Trials

Book:Simon Peter: His Early Life and Times

Source: Simon Peter: His Early Life and Times

“People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”

People Ifs Kind Said Asks Wish Answers Silence Injustice Ask Me Silence Is Accomplices Death Wish

Book:Infidel

Source: Infidel

“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

Knows Needs Looks Doe Important Order Asks Imagination Rooms Silence Students Music Is Ideals Important Things Chaos Release Serenity Silence Is My Imagination

Author:Toni Morrison

“I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

“The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?”

Firsts Kind Real Might Asks Voice Silence Broken Impulse Silence Is Tunnels Breaking Silence Being Broken

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.”

Ifs Government Eye Kids Asks Bits Silence Watches Birth Blame Concerts Yellow Manufacturing Sponges Condom Spongebob Squarepants

Author:Thom Yorke

“We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“We're all in this together. It's okay to be honest. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to say you're stuck, or that you're haunted or that you can't begin to let go. We can all relate to those things. Screw the stigma that says otherwise. Break the silence and break the cycle, for you are more than just your pain. You are not alone. And people need other people.”

People Needs Helping Pain Together Asks Silence Break Honest Letting Go Okay Stuck Relate Being Honest Cycles Screws Not Alone Stigma

Book:If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

Source: If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.”

Thinking Should Believe Problem Actors Asks Speak Silence Company Imagine Crazy Goes On Reader Empty Theater Thoughtful More Time Believe In Me Uncommon Good Company

Author:Wallace Stegner

“Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"”

Way Firsts Littles Two Young Turns Asks Water Silence Boys Morning Hell One Day Fishes Swim Swimming Wiser Salmon

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you.”

“Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.”

Ifs Knows Said Moments Happens Asks Answers Silence Ems Do You Know Lad

Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Stories Shows Mother Asks Strong Silence Daughter Connections Stronger Details Unfinished Whining Unfinished Business Strong Connection

Author:Anita Diament

“The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.”

“I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.”

Thinking Knows Feels Wells Said Today Asks Christ Powerful Existence Silence Kings Lucky Gun Clean Blow Confusion Most Powerful Punk Locked Bullets Grandma Refrigerators Locked Up Handguns

Author:Janet Evanovich

“In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)”

Ifs Asks Silence Heard Bed Cat Profane Monologues Carrying On

Author:Barbara Mertz

“In your palms, I’ve placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I’m not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you’d destroy. (Nykyrian)”

Ifs Giving Asks Easy Secret Silence Palms Leaving Me

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.”

Men Ends Enough Able Earth Lying Dies Asks Left Silence Gone Youth Truth Is Madness Endless Agony

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.”

People Thinking Sometimes Asks Silence Response Uncomfortable Worth It Is It Worth It

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!”

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