Silence is sometimes the answer


Estonian Proverb

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One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.
STEVE MARABOLI
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The best answer to anger is silence.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The right answer to a fool is silence
AFGHAN PROVERB
Why do we need words when sometimes silence is the perfect answer? Why do we need words when they ar...
CLAIRE BURROUGHS PEREZ
What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN
The work will teach you
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Earth is dearer than gold
ESTONIAN PROVERB
One cannot make soup out of beauty
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism
CHARLES BUXTON
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
CHARLES BUXTON
But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings...
ROBIN SLOAN
A long pause, no answer; leads to silence and a straight answer.
GINA JAMMAL
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
THOMAS HOBBES
Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.
ANON.
Sometimes stunned silence is better than applause.
JENNY LAWSON
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
THOMAS MERTON
Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.
SHANNON L. ALDER
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sometimes, truth causes pain and suffering. At such times, silence is preferred.
AMISH TRIPATHI
Sometimes the mind silence the heart, cause it is afraid of what it might say...
BONITA VENTER
God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.
DAN BROWN
Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA
Sometimes the best conversation between two people is simply being with each other ...in silence.
LORRIN L. LEE
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
FAITH BALDWIN
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subje...
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between...
DAN BROWN
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, w...
ANDRE SEGOVIA
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
JAMES DILLET FREEMAN
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press p...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
JAMES DILLET FREEMAN
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and ...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and a...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually havi...
BRIAN GREENE
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP
A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one insi...
COLEMAN BARKS
Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.
ROBIN JONES GUNN
Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.
SARAH DESSEN
Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.
LISA KLEYPAS
One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed a...
ROBERT K. GREENLEAF
What answer do you give to silence? Who there hears the solitude of so many people? Of so many other...
MARIANA FULGER
Sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Sometimes the truth isn’t obvious; sometimes it exists in the silence, in the emptiness between th...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction...
BIBLE
We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of b...
CARMEN KASS
Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answ...
SALMAN MANSURI
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the mos...
YEHUDA BERG
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
It took you long enough to answer your phone.” “It’s my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don�...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
JOYCE RACHELLE
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer ...
G.K. CHESTERTON
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE
Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yoursel...
SRI CHINMOY
Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t...
GWENDOLYN BENNETT
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who ...
RAND PAUL
the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone....
SUZANNE COLLINS
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
RUSSIAN PROVERB
You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
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Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misun...
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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Riches have wings.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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