"If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words."

-- Enoch Powell

#Silence Quotes #Silence Is Quotes

“I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.”
“The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful.”
“I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.”

Source : "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12,2012.
“Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.”
“AÂ true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.”
“When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.”

Source : Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.32, New World Library
“Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.”

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