Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

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

Daniel Goleman

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

Edna O'Brien

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

Alice Sebold

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

Curtis LeMay

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

Curtis Sittenfeld

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Leonardo da Vinci

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

Neil Cohen

The patients who have had the more serious events are very sick patients. I think the purpose of this letter is for oncologists to get more information to make treatment decisions.

Atharva Veda

The past is 'truth' because events have already happened and they can not be questioned.

Jim Rice

The American people should never feel scared to go out to visit events that are their heritage, and that's exactly why law enforcement takes such a strong preparatory stance for these events.

Eric Howe

We were strong on floor, and I think that gave us some momentum going over to vault. Having those two events back to back was big.

John Parsons

Typically events like this would take four months, maybe six months,

Derek Schiller

We have a great opportunity to have two great events back-to-back.

Andrew Zalasky

We've managed volunteers for events like Special Olympics Iowa and the Iowa Games for 15 years.

Randy Thompson

We're still trying to place people in the right spots. Right after spring break, we'll start locking in and focusing toward district, but right now we're moving guys around to see how they do in different events and see where they'll be strongest.

John Seaberry

We're really trying to make it more spectator-friendly. Most of the events are at the base. People can participate and then they can come up and listen to good music.

Dave Barry

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

Bernhard Schlink

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Drew Carey

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Donnie Yen

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Craig Newmark

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Julian Barnes

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

Jared Padalecki

Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.