Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily
Gwendolyn Bennett
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One who cares is one who listens.
J. RICHARD CLARKE One who listens learns more than one who speaks.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST. A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she lear...
ADENA FRIEDMAN For one who knows not God – Mighty and Glorious!- silence is imperative, and for one who knows God...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
BRENDAN FRANCIS A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
BRENDAN BEHAN Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t...
GWENDOLYN BENNETT I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Wenn du mich küsst, Gwendolyn Shepherd, dann ist das so, als würde ich den Kontakt zum Boden verli...
KERSTIN GIER Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too b...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Even a minute of pure silence through meditation first thing in the morning is a daily gift one give...
KēVENS 'Tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart be sure is not of ice,
And o...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) He listens well who takes notes.
DANTE ALIGHIERI He understands badly who listens badly
WELSH PROVERB When you play, never mind who listens to you.
ROBERT SCHUMANN Woman is attracted to a man who listens, guides and connects to her mind while she is low. – Shahw...
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as s...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.
MARCEL ACHARD There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The man who listens only to his own voice knows little but is never wrong.
E.R. ROCK At the risk of sounding stuffy, I like to do the right thing,
JAMES MANNING I'm not negotiating with anyone. My agent receives lots of proposals, listens to what they have to s...
LUIZ FELIPE SCOLARI How hungrily we read about ourselves!
GORE VIDAL The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS But yet she listen'd--'tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Silence is a beautiful thing that nobody have ever seen.
KOWSALAPATHY Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one lis...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Silence is a true friend who never betrays.A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless wo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Durant-Bennett just ran a good race. We're excited that we have one more meet. This is not the way w...
EMMY WILLIAMS Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to pr...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN We neither of us perform to strangers.
JANE AUSTEN A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not f...
HANIEL LONG Everybody starts out as strangers.
J.A. REDMERSKI It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p...
KATJA MILLAY Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.
CARRIE ANN INABA Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.
ANDRA DAY Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA Find a love that listens even when you’re not saying anything, that knows the infinite ways
...
LIZ NEWMAN Silence is a friend who will never betray.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
CONFUCIUS Silence is a friend who will never betray
CONFUCIUS The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to mast...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacop...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The one who has children has branches – cannot fit in a sole waiting, a single silence.
MARIANA FULGER ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN Silence is the only thing that can't be misquoted!
UNKNOWN but the question of what to do with Bennett now is a whole different issue.
DONNA KELLY What luck. I chose the douche-y sounding one.
KENDARE BLAKE It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
COLETTE He is a smooth talker. Victims always said they were spoken to by a clear, intelligent-sounding adul...
BILL WILSON It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach
FRENCH PROVERB Who are you? A noise or a melody? Or may be you are a silence! If you are a silence, then you will b...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really onl...
KATE BUSH It's awful sounding. And it's loud.
JOHN FOX No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN One of the leading conservative voices in the country is trying to explain himself today. William Be...
BOB WOODRUFF May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When everyone failed to hear my screams, you are the only one who heard my silence.
AKSHAY VASU Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop...
HENRY ROLLINS You can tell Bussie and I rubbed off on him. One thing about the kid, he listens -- and he's got mor...
DUCE STALEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty ...
SUSANNA CLARKE The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. T...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER I went to pick up my nephew from primary school, and one of the teachers there stopped me and said, ...
STORMZY Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS Goldberg called around to friends she has, including one in Chicago who works at the same firm Ken S...
DAVID KENDALL The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
JEFF RICH It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for...
OLLY MURS Anyone who listens to the 'Jerusalem' album will discover that Steve Earle remains a thoughtful sing...
DANNY GOLDBERG It was 200 Eeyores in the room, going 'No one cares. No one listens. What are we going to do?'
CAROLYN BENNETT Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. The...
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OSCAR WILDE When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron i...
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BIKRAM CHOUDHURY He doesn't tell people how to play. Silence is a good thing. If he's happy, he doesn't say much.
AARON PARKS The look in her eyes told me that under any other circumstances, I would either already be naked wit...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Wait, you remember that?"
"Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked li...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Your silence is a better reply than your words to those who don’t deserve you.
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
MARLEE MATLIN Everybody listens to Nobody!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise though...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're s...
BENITO MARTINEZ Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANON. Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANONYMOUS It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
SHANNON L. ALDER Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves tha...
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ALAN BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT