Top 26 Quotes About Staying Silent
#1. Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.
Mardy Grothe
#2. Here's what bothers me about adults. They say we're supposed to be the bigger person and lie there like road kill while the bullies repeatedly run us over. That we're saying more by taking the abuse and staying silent, than sticking up for ourselves. I don't see it that way.
Lauren Hammond
#3. My mistake was not in speaking out. No, my mistake was staying silent for too long.
Hannah Harrington
#4. All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
Mary Travers
#5. Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the next round of pontificating and so saved their strength by staying silent.
Anna Quindlen
#6. Staying silent, staying away from him ... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.
Rick Riordan
#7. Being silent may seem weak, but staying silent takes more strength than they'll ever know. I'm
Kathryn Perez
#8. Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for - YOU.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. For once in my life, I'd love to be myself around everyone else and be accepted for who I am instead of staying silent for fear of people mocking me.
Katie McGarry
#10. How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God's will and another is just cultural differences? What if it's all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?
Trevor D. Richardson
#11. You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on.
E. M. Forster
#12. Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
Laurie Metcalf
#13. SHE MAY BE AN EVIL BITCH, BUT SHE IS MY EVIL BITCH. AND I'LL HAVE NO OTHER
Kresley Cole
#14. Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan
#15. Jennifer," I asked, "what do you ever do besides read?"
She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, "I think.
E.L. Konigsburg
#16. Reese sucked in a breath and played faster, hurling the anger through his fingers until it spun all his
fear, all his rage, into the gentle voice of music.
Willowy Whisper
#17. The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.
Emma Goldman
#18. There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the first time, I can sense how fully agonizing staying will be.
Gayle Forman
#19. The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
George Sand
#21. I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.
Gabriel Byrne
#23. You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.
Sam Altman
#24. You have the right to every end of your exploration and no motherfucker anywhere can tell you otherwise ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#25. There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#26. Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
Melissa McCarthy