Best silence & two Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power, existing in singleness. It bestirs itself and assumes a determinate aspect by turning into Thinking (Nous, i.e. Mind), from which comes forth the Thought (Epinoia). As soon as thought is born out of the thinking silence, suddenly one has become two.”

Thinking Writing Mind Two Born Silence Aspect Roots Assuming Cosmos Tao Limitless Unfathomable Singleness

Author:Edward F Edinger

“The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.”

Needs Long Two Motivational Culture Voice Silence Destiny Calling Cost Solitude Depth Lists Paradise Prize Distraction Silence Is Shallowness Twitter And Facebook

Author:Steven Pressfield

“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”

Thinking Needs Two Three Speak Silence Weak Hatred Abuse Slave Dare Fallen Shrinks Scoffing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.”

Two Three Silence Creator Surface Painter Flats Mute

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.”

Two Sometimes Moments Hands Moving Silence Everyday Tea Clock Toasts Crumbs Carrying On Two Hands

Book:Great House

Source: Great House

“I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”

Way Two Different Silence Heard Feminism Conflict Hundred Female Feminist Instance Variation Piety Victimhood

Book:Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

“I don't get any anxiety. I don't because of two reasons. Number one, just breaking through it as a kid and finally getting past it was like okay, nothing's ever going to feel that scary again as that deafening silence of a joke not working. Any joke not working is not as bad as not being able to even try and get on stage.”

Feels Trying Two Reason Kids Able Past Numbers Silence Stage Anxiety Jokes Okay Scary

Author:Dane Cook

“Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?”

“The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.”

Heart Two Silence Grey Puddles Two Hearts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.”

I Can Two Done Seems Lost Speak Natural Silence Talent Silent Quitting Recognition Suspects Odds Entitled Brevity Laurels Concise Lost Me

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.”

Giving Two Sometimes Home Three Silence Nice Coming Home Fury Immediate Family

Author:Anne Enright

“To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?”

Two Different Light Voice Silence Share Cost Benefits Shadow Consequence Theme Different Experiences Light And Shadow

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.”

“What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.”

People Way Children Two Lasts Speak Silence Fate Week Promise Lonely Tongue Native Tragic Elders Anticipate Two Weeks Plight Tragic Fate

Author:Wade Davis

“I'm a complete control freak. We worked a lot on the pace and where to put the silences. We choreographed the gestures and movements. We had a lot of rehearsals and a lot of takes. Also, there's something special that comes out of those two actors: he's water and she's fire.”

Two Actors Water Silence Fire Special Movement Pace Freak Gestures Rehearsal Something Special Control Freak

Author:Eran Kolirin

“I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.”

Feels I Can Two Hard Half Silence Months Computer Summer Mail Telephones Maine Fax

Author:Alan Lightman

“My only two weapons: time and silence.”

Two Silence Weapons

Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez

“In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.”

Humans Two Enjoy Silence Mutual Deep Love Human Relations Human Relationships There Comes A Time Two Friends Mutual Love

Book:The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter

Source: The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter

“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

“The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.”

Two Silence Figures Authority Photography Aspect Importance Objectives Symbols Remarks Leading Me

Author:Christian Metz

“Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.”

World Needs Heart Littles Two Helping Eye Desire Wish Christ Silence Trouble Window Overcoming

Author:Mother Teresa

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.”

Years Two White Silence Minutes Solitude Paper Terror Desks White Paper

Author:Erica Jong

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

Two Powerful Silence Behavior Outcomes Sustaining Dominating Circumspection

Author:Judith Orloff

“I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.”

Children Two Seems Night Three Challenges Interesting Silence Benefits Sitting All Night Up All Night Sitting In Silence

Author:Misha Collins

“There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.”

Way Two Voice Deals Silence Known Media Eternal Consequence Vow Two Ways

Author:Andrew Linzey

“If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.”

Ifs Doe Two Problem Seems Used Causes Silence Evidence Silent Deny Versions Explanation Hypothesis Razors

Author:Elliott Sober

“I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.”

People World Kind Long Two Light Remember Sound Silence Streets Television Walking Office Sitting Trade Crowds All Kinds Planes Centre World Trade Procession

Author:Tom Wolfe

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.”

“Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.”

Two Moments Fall Sound Silence Darkness Dying Rain Ultimate Ears Absolutes Pity Borders Roof Without Love Umbrella Sirens Vibrate Rain Falling

Book:The Heart of The Matter

Source: The Heart of The Matter

“Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.”

Way Doe Made Two Stories Problem Seems Form Reading Realizing Imagination Natural Silence Four Imagine Shapes Findings Tests Bases Absolutes Finals Defined Orange

Author:Truman Capote

“The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)”

Way Two Sometimes Moments Lost Silence Streets Corners Traveler Pioneers Windy Perplexity Street Corners Two Friends

Book:O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

Long Two Silence Long Time Making Love Love Again

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.”

“The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.”

Ifs Two Real Night Felt Perfect Silence Darkness Stillness Solemn Doubted

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.”

Two Silence Fingers Flames Candle Bangs Unwind

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.”

Two Self Use Jobs Lasts Brain Silence Sadness Cry Anxiety Hatred Stealing Over You Milk Conspiracy Minors Family And Friends Compounds Hangover Self Hatred Ineffable Spilt Milk

Author:Kingsley Amis

“For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”

Two Evil Silence Remedy Monte Cristo

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 3âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 3: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 3âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 3: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes

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