Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 3:7
She was positively unable to reply to Annetta's
— LM Montgomery
Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.
— LM Montgomery
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
— Abraham Lincoln
But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
— Winston Churchill
No. Have it here where it is quiet. You and your quiet, said Brett. What is it men feel about quiet? We like it, said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.
— Ernest Hemingway
Why did you do it? — I don't know. Here isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do We have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?
— Ernest Hemingway
It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But
— Ernest Hemingway
Why did you do it? — I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do we have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?
— Ernest Hemingway
In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
— Lady Gaga
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
— Robert Frost