quotes about Saying Nothing
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The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.
-- Arundhati RoySource : Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”
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I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.
-- Brandon Boyd -
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Denis Waitley -
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
-- Karen Joy FowlerSource : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.126, Serpent's Tail
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I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
-- Lee Child -
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He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?
-- Andrew KreisbergSource : Source: collider.com
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There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.
-- Soledad O'Brien -
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
-- Roger Babson