you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.
Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.
He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.
I just -- I know my own heart and I love you, Turner. And if you have even the tiniest shred of decency, you'll say something because I've said everything I possibly can, and I can't bear the silence, and -- oh for heaven's sake! Will you at least blink?" He couldn't even manage that.
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.
Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear
I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out. And I don't need to even that out because if somebody's being negative, I need to be the better person.
Boards don't hit back.
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.
When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —
To refuse to respond is in itself a response.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.
