Chilling Effect Quotes

#1. Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

John Collison

#2. I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe it has a chilling effect on the ability to gather news about potential abuses masked by inappropriate classification.

Kurt Eichenwald

#3. What worries me," he adds, "is that this circus-like atmosphere may have scared off many young scientists. It actually has a chilling effect. It prevents scientists from participating in the public discourse, because they fear they, or their department head, will be threatened.

Jane Mayer

#4. It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.

Gary Pruitt

#5. A Democratic congressman said that he worries that the IRS scandal might have a chilling effect on the IRA and that they might be afraid to audit people. So finally some good is coming out of all of this.

Jay Leno

#6. It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

Safak Pavey

#7. It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

Jackie Speier

#8. The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.

Bryant McGill

#9. You know, I was gutting this loser the other day, and I thought, It'd be more fun fighting that little dhampir. I wonder if she's recovered yet. And here you are."
"Lucky me," I said.
Scarface grinned. "You know, I might even let you live. You're funny.

Karen Chance

#10. Sometimes I wish we could open ourselves up to each other as much as we do to the sky. To the smallness and the enomity.

David Levithan

#11. Nothing ever stay the same

Elizabeth Edwards

#12. What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.

Murasaki Shikibu

#13. Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, both dark and bright, and they will ensnare your soul.

Robert Beatty

#14. Freddie's face was anxious."Mike,you sure about Moe Greene selling?He never mentioned it me and he loves the business.I really don't think that he'll sell."
Michael said quietly,"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
The words were said casually yet the effect was chilling.

Mario Puzo

#15. I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.

Sebastian Horsley

#16. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Edward Snowden