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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance... Annie Dillard
George Orwell quote: "Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though..."
Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. George Orwell
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in the Wildness is the preservation of the World. Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Edison quote: "We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice..."
We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak Thomas Edison
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally."
Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. Dorothy L. Sayers
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When does a gentleman offer his arm to a lady as they are walking down the street together? GENTLE READER: Strictly speaking, only when he can be practical assisstance to her. That is, when the way is steep, dark, crowded, or puddle-y. However, it is rather a cozy juxtapostion, less comprising than walking hand in hand, and rather enjoyable for people who are fond of each other, so Miss Manners allows some leeway in interpreting what is of practical assisstance. One... Judith Martin
The third: life with spiritual beings. Here the relation is wrapped in a cloud but reveals itself, it lacks but creates language. we hear no You and yet addressed; we answer - creating, thinking, acting: with our being we speak the basic word, unable to say You with our mouth. Martin Buber
What did this portend? He still breathed, the instruments did not change, his heart beat on. But he called to Peter. Did this mean that he longed to live the life of his child of the mind, Young Peter? Or in some kind of delirium was he speaking to his brother the Hegemon? Or earlier, his brother as a boy. Peter, wait for me. Peter, did I do well? Peter, don't hurt me. Peter, I hate you. Peter for one smile of yours I'd die or kill. What was his message? Orson Scott Card
Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of books in which Mac usually sat. "Did anyone speak?" he asked, blinking in teh flood of sunshine that entered with Rose. "Only three times, thank you. Don't disturb yourself, I beg; for I merely want to say a word," answered Rose. Louisa May Alcott
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one..."
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am quite glad you are at home; for these hurries and forebodings by which I have been surrounded all day long, have made me nervous without reason. You are not going out, I hope?' No; I am going to play backgammon with you, if you like,' said the Doctor. I don't think I do like, if I may speak my mind. I am not fit to be pitted against you to-night. Is the tea-board still there Lucie? I can't see. Charles Dickens
Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember. Neil Gaiman
Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world. But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you... Khalil Gibran
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? C. S. Lewis
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out..."
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. Mahatma Gandhi

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