Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 3:7
He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.
— Charles Dickens
He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.
— Charles Dickens
I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.
— Ryuichi Sakamoto
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
— Oscar Wilde
MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!
— Oscar Wilde
Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.
— Confucius
Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.
— Dale Carnegie
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
— Walt Whitman
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
— Wendell Berry
Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.
— Charles Martin
It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.
— Charles Martin
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.
— Hannah More