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“When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.”

Wisdom Speak Sun Words Of Wisdom Waste Silent Candle

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.”

Form Speak Language Waste Architecture Resistance Celebrate

Book:Architektur denken

Source: Architektur denken

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.”

“Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.”

“Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.”

Said Done Shows Speak Easier Waste Solutions Arguing Wasting Time Good Work Don't Waste Time Easier Said Than Done

Author:Megan Alexander

“There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!”

World Made Moving Speak Water Known Millions Cases Five Air Waste Ocean Pressure Forgotten Currents Our World Plastic Soup Spinning Spirals Discarded Spinning Around Ocean Currents

Author:Brandon Boyd

“Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”

People Should Persons Spiritual Speak Loses Wise Waste Breaths

Author:Confucius

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

Men Way Believe Different Speak Waste Different Ways Wasting Time Accomplishing Something

Author:Neal Stephenson

“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee”

Stills Spirit Speak Tree Solitude Waste Singing Bird Wide Thee Desert Sympathy Fountain

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.”

People Knows Trying Success Science Speak Hard Work Waste Models Machines Workers Flying Convince Wasting Time Scarce Sydney Unbelievers American Workers Flying Machines

Author:Lawrence Hargrave

“Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.”

People Ifs Want Speak Easy Dark Fronts Waste Get Up Hiding Cowardice Microphones Heckling

Author:Billy Connolly

“Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?”

Speak Heard Team Dog Creatures Waste Frozen Good Sense

Author:John Banville

“All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.”

Speak Waiting Emotion Attention Communication Speech Waste Lows Noise Quietness Dynamite

Author:Elbert Hubbard