Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
Quotations
Silence
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
-Lawrence Durrell
"Justine"
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
