I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Silence is the mother of truth.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Silence is safer than speech.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.