Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

David Sedaris

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

Deborah King

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

Ed Koch

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

Eli Roth

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

Abdul Kalam

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Amanda Hocking

You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!

Cynthia Nixon

We didn't know each other before [ the Killing Reagan], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

Anatoly Chubais

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Anne Rice

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Michael Paranzino

Since 1999 we've had 100,000 innocent people murdered in America. But nobody is planning on commemorating all those people killed.

Bill Hamilton

This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Rick Watson

We're kind of in the position that everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Agatha Christie

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.