Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roxane Gay

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Orrin Hatch

encourages Y2K problem-solving, rather than encouraging a rush to the courthouse.

Jonathan Knight

Everybody encourages everybody else. You can still have an impact even when you don't get into the game every night.

Zhang Hao

Every online message encourages me and serves as new support for me to do better.

Sajan George

There is something symbolic about physically opening a school that encourages people to come back.

Noah Hawley

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.

Kevin McCloud

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.

Charles Patterson

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Andrea Bocelli

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

Richard Boucher

We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking.

Kitt Burroughs

About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.

Toussaint Tyler

It's just a different role I have to run. But the team helps me run that role by getting open.

Carol Mitchell

A lot of what I did in social work helps me now. It's benefited me here because I know the families.

Jeremy Chatterton

This is a big win for us. More than anything it helps us get our psyche back.

John Dickerson

This is a big win for Bush, ... if for no other reason than it helps him psychologically.

Soren Kierkegaard

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Carly Fiorina

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Francis Quarles

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

Horatio Nelson

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Lajos Kossuth

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Samuel Schmid

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

Louis D. Brandeis

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Charles Dickens

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Alan Watts

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Chogyam Trungpa

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Edith Wharton

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

Edith Wharton

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.