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
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
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
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 think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I… — Elliot Cowan Copy Share Image
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to claim no impact. What… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very… — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
“All abusive systems are facilitated by bystanders, whose awareness of what is disavowed is always partial, resulting in a state of knowing… — Sylvia Solinski Copy Share Image