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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. – Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"
In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) – George Will
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. – Hodding Carter
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. – Mother Theresa
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth. – Quincy Jones
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. – Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. – Margaret Cho
A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad – Alan Marshall Beck
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. – John Lahr
All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. – William Powell
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. – Visions of Gregorian Chants
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. – Cyril Connolly
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. – Michel de Montaigne
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. – Michel de Montaigne
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. – William Shakespeare
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail. – William Lloyd
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. – Peter Minard
Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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