A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
Sandra Day O'Connor

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Leopold Stokowski

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
Jean Stafford

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.
Dino De Laurentiis

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Margaret Sanger

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
George Washington Cable

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
Robert Scheer

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
William R. Benet

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
Jonathan Franzen

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot