#silent

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#enlightenment #humor #music #silence #silent-music

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. ↗

— Rumi

#power-of-words #remaining-silent #words

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ↗

— George Carlin

#nights #only #silent #wolves

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' ↗

— Mitt Romney

#bomber #conversation #our #remain #right

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#kind #main #main thing #side #silent

Hope will never be silent. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#never #silent #will

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. ↗

— John Ford

#griefs #silent #which

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. ↗

— Peter King

#attacks #blindly #bring #done #down

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#call #every #father #friend #here

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once. ↗

— Mark Russell

#just #like #never #once #out