Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

There are no innocent bystanders ...

William S. Burroughs

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

Robert Reed

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Martin Niemoller

There was no one left to speak for me

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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.

John F. Kennedy

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

Henry Ford

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

Bernard Goldberg

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

Andrew Jackson

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Hulk Hogan

When you're nWo, you're nWo for life.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Robbie Robertson

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.