Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
– Miguel de Unamuno
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- It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. – Miguel de Unamuno
- If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory. – Miguel de Unamuno
- real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us! – D Martyn LloydJones
- That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent. – Aldous Huxley
- A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
- Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be. – Jessica Kissner
- Do you want to change the world?Then change yourself first.Do you want to change yourself?Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea. – Sri Chinmoy
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- Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted. – Vironika Tugaleva
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- I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace
- I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. – David Foster Wallace
- The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things. – Natalie J Damschroder
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- What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? – Saurabh Sharma
- True love will triumph in the end-”which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have. – John Green
- Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move. – Anthony ONeill
- Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots. – Lex Allen
- Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau
- Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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- I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed. – Anne Spollen
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- Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We choose to remain angry. Someone else may have initiated the anger but we choose whether we remain in this state or not. – Avina Celeste
- Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin
- that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny. – Okey Ndibe
- Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. – Sherman Alexie
- Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream! – Mehmet Murat ildan