A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words .... and his silences.
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. - David Leavitt
The silences weren’t awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him. - Dominic Riccitello
It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all. - Karen Marie Moning
Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us? - Twang Eng Tan
But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed - A.A. Patawaran
Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair. - Nikki Rosen
Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. - Stefan Molyneux
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star... - E.E. Cummings
If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term. - Alison Weir
May my silences become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke
Loud courage silences loud fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
He’s an indulgent sort of man……With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships. - Coco J. Ginger
Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent! - Vishwanath S J
There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection. - Anaïs Nin
Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them. - Matshona Dhliwayo
An envy of that one consummate partSwept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my heart. - Léonie Adams
Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order o make sense of the world around us? - Twang Eng Tan
When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors! - Adam S. McHugh