History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the… — William James Copy Share Image
All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders. — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
When things get difficult I don't want bystanders, I need those who will stand by me — 20something Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Sometimes the spirit is playing you. I call it following the will of the music, and when that feeling shows up, you… — Charlie Musselwhite Copy Share Image
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs,"… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get… — Jane Curtin Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on… — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
There are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers.… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
