Stille / Silence Zitate auf Englisch

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci

People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.

Julian Treasure

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Wangari Maathai

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

Apollonius of Tyana

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

T. S. Eliot

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Aeschylus

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Loretta Young

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

George Zimmer

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

George Steiner

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Albert Camus

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Hermann Hesse

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

I am rather inclined to silence.

Abraham Lincoln

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Myrtle Reed

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theroux

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

James Broughton

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Marcel Marceau

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Ausonius

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

Margaret Heffernan

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Ben Kingsley

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Boyle Roche

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Isaiah Berlin

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

Al Roker

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

Michel Temer

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Mark Helprin

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.

Vikram Patel

The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.

Jenny Scheinman

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Khalil Gibran

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Mark Helprin

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Mary Wollstonecraft