Quotes About The Silent Treatment

#1. At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

Victoria Osteen

#2. Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Beverly Engel

#3. What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity.

Robert Cormier

#4. We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#5. Ooh, the silent treatment.

Ally Carter

#6. So yeah. Jesse Walker was giving me the silent treatment. I was probably the only person who could claim that honor.

Nicole Williams

#7. When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.

Wes Fesler

#8. What?" I ask the back of his head. "Now you're giving me the silent treatment?" His shoulders jiggle up and down. You know, one of those wry, silent chuckles, accompanied by a rueful shake of the head. Girls! So silly.

Rick Yancey

#9. A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."
- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title)

G.R. Matthews

#10. She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.

Jonathan Lethem

#11. As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

Russell Simmons

#12. Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alan Hansen

#13. Wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.

Mohlalefi J Motsima

#14. Azevedo Bandeira is an expert in the art of progressive intimidation, in the satanic maneuver of gradually humiliating his interlocutor by combining verities and gibes.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Joyce Rachelle

#16. Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

Delmore Schwartz

#17. Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.

Donna Lynn Hope

#18. Created a word game to play with a person you're fighting with. Silent Treatment. Nothing happens until one of you quietly says, Hey, you hungry?

Dane Cook

#19. When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#20. Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Jerry Only

#21. Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

Nancy Duarte