It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. - Madeleine Albright Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made. - Samuel Beckett Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of - Samuel Beckett I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. - Samuel Johnson To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. - Jean De La Bruyere It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. - Voltaire The Greens hav...

Ooh, the silent treatment. - Ally Carter Do you want to tell me why I'm getting the silent treatment?' He asked gruffly, his breath hot on my ear. I hunched up my shoulders, pulling away. His voice had an effect on my body and I didn't want him to know that. 'I'm talking to you.' 'Barely.' 'I've got a lot on my mind.' 'Do you want to talk about it?' 'When have I ever wanted to talk about it? - Samantha Young What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity. - Robert Cormier On those days when we are not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we are actually saying is, 'Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the S...

Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done. - Rick Riordan TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they've given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong. - Susane Colasanti

Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance. - Max Barry If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! - Victor Hugo It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent. - Neil Gaiman I think every creature near enough to hear that just pooped" Oberon said, "And then it went into hiding. Hunting tip number one:Stay Silent. - Kevin Hearne Fucking shut up, you wh...

Ooh, the silent treatment. - Ally Carter Do you want to tell me why I'm getting the silent treatment?' He asked gruffly, his breath hot on my ear. I hunched up my shoulders, pulling away. His voice had an effect on my body and I didn't want him to know that. 'I'm talking to you.' 'Barely.' 'I've got a lot on my mind.' 'Do you want to talk about it?' 'When have I ever wanted to talk about it? - Samantha Young What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity. - Robert Cormier On those days when we are not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we are actually saying is, 'Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the S...

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. - Steve Forbes He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that there was a process, and that the process involved immersion, putting your whole head under until you touched the bottom and only then coming up for air. - Paolo Giordano In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's eas...

Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and safest to keep silent. - Paulo Coelho We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. - Jean De La Bruyere Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. - Elias Canetti If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent. - Confucius I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. - Muriel Spark It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. - Victor Hugo The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows. - Neil Gaiman Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. - L P Hart...

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe While you judge me by my outward appearance, I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong. - Richelle E Goodrich Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak. - Sylvia Plath

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words. - Paulo Coelho It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. - Madeleine Albright At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty. - Nicole Krauss Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with gre...