Silence Equals Quotes & Sayings

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right. — Truman Capote

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. — Michael D. Eisner

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair. — Gabrielle Giffords

As a matter of habit, I stop and pick up seashells that interest me, and I always put the ones I really like in a lovely Baccarat bowl in my living room. It's my way of remembering that I once was young and carefree. — Adriana Trigiani

We have no idea how busy God's hands are even when His mouth seems closed. Where God is concerned, silence never equals slumber. — Beth Moore

We belong to talking, not what talking is about ... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. — Zygmunt Bauman

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him. — David Hume

This is my worst fear. It's not keeping my students safe from terrorists, it's knowing what to do when the Chaplain comes to take Johnny out of class because not letting the terrorists win means sometimes the good guys are going to die. And those good guys have kids, and they're sitting in my classroom. — Tucker Elliot

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption - the fear - that death equaled silence. — David Levithan

Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind. — Jon Mertz

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.69 Yet it is precisely such an environment in which a healthy perspective on the Bible can easily give way to legalism. — Craig L. Blomberg

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity. — George Soros

I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally. — Julie Delpy

Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed. — Margaret Cho

Life imitates art and art imitates life until both imitate imitation - Reality TV. — Brian Spellman