Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Crying is a kind of communication, and communication is awesome.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK.