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

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

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

In time of war the laws are silent.

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

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

Silence is safer than speech.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Silence is a source of great strength.

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

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

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

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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

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.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

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.

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

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

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.

I am rather inclined to silence.

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.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.