Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

There are no innocent bystanders ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Edna O'Brien

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Daniel Goleman

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

Alice Sebold

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Sonia Sotomayor

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

William S. Burroughs

The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.

Virginia Woolf

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

William Saroyan

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

William James

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Ray Winstone

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Tullian Tchividjian

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

Uma Thurman

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Sarah Vowell

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Robertson Davies

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

Roseanne Barr

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

Zach Braff

Without me, Scrubs would be worse than the holocaust. But with me in it, it's turned into the lolocaust.

Ellen Goodman

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

Chris Abani

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

Benazir Bhutto

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

Elie Wiesel

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Atom Egoyan

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Eliot Engel

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

David Irving

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.