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I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. – Merrick Garland	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Just like any chronic disease of aging -- high cholesterol, heart attacks, strokes -- they all start silently decades before they show up. Alzheimer's disease is no different, targeting them early on is the best recipe for optimal brain health as we age. – Richard Isaacson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Jessica was becoming a textbook Mean Girl. I was being slowly swallowed alive by my anxiety, and Jake was silently watching it all happen, which was maybe the most disconcerting of all our reactions, our family was falling apart, and the stress of falling apart was making us fall apart even faster. – Roseanne Barr	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I do want to put that time period in context, and the only way I could think to do so -- it may be a little theatrical, but I think it's appropriate, i want us all to get a concept of time. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to sit silently for one minute. – Judge Timothy R. Walmsley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Some can do that silently within the vehicle, even seated next to one another, others will need to pull over in a town or out on the road, and allow each other that space. Without planning a method for conflict management ahead of time, the van... can quickly become a toxic and unhealthy environment. – Brian Laundrie	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Scientists are trained to discover and follow the facts, so I believe that we can not maintain our integrity or our credibility if we stand by silently while bad public health policies are damaging the UGA community. – Jeff Bennetzen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. – Carl Sagan, Cosmos	added by Soulwriter 2 years ago
My child, let your life come into the world of darkness like a spark of light, without flicker and pure, and thank them in silence. You know, my child, they are cruel in their greed and envy, their words are disguised knives thirsting for blood. But do not be afraid, my child, go and stand in their hearts, and let your gentle eyes fall on them like the forgiving serenity of the night. My child, let them see your face and so they know it meaning of all things, let them love and love one another. Go, at sunrise, open and lift up your heart like a blooming flower, and at sunset, bend your head and silently complete the worship of the day. Remember, my child, gods and demons, ghosts and elves are fragments of one, built by the hand of the abyss. So, move on, go to the shore of the vast darkness, there, is the Great Meeting of Children, there, the sea gives a smile to the beach, there, sing the waves facing death – Alexis karpouzos	added by alexis_k 2 years ago
They never had the clinical syndrome of a thrombotic disorder. It was silently causing damage. – Valentin Fuster	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm not sure the Chief Justice is fully aware of just how rare it is, how extraordinary it is, for the House members to be able to command the attention of senators sitting silently for hours, or even for minutes, for that matter, of course, it doesn't hurt that the morning starts out every day with the sergeant at arms warning you that, if you don't, you will be imprisoned. – Adam Schiff	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Everything that is being done, it turns out, is not for people or fans ... but just so officials can report on work that has allegedly been carried out, we were not consulted about anything that has been done. In our country there isn't a particular need for people or ideas, just for people who pay taxes and silently agree with everything. – Yevgeny Chernov	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I returned home that evening without you, with an extreme and profound pain, that maybe, one day, will weaken, I don't know, this pain made me feel as close as ever to your colleagues, who are also suffering, as you do too, silently. As I do, silently. – Etienne Cardiles	Found on CNN 7 years ago
When we looked at the data, we found a stable illness, not an increase, this had been happening silently. – Christine Kihembo	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This had been happening silently. – Christine Kihembo	Found on CNN 7 years ago
My neighbors didn’t believe that I could afford to power my house silently. – Margaret Nduge	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I will not stand by, silently, as any false claims are made about dangers in Flint water….whether they were made by the State of Michigan falsely claiming the water was safe before October 2015, or by an actor who came to Flint after the federal emergency was declared and made unfounded allegations that the water was dangerous for showering or bathing. – Marc Edwards	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
So I was thinking, what would happen if we just stood there silently? – Marty Rosenbluth	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When you walk through shadows of fear, talk to me, I am here. Know that I am you and YOU are me, do not give up silently. – Gordana Biernat	added by anonymous 8 years ago
They walked forward silently ... in front of my car. They fired about 10-15 bullets through the windscreen. All I could see was blood and broken glass, they were very well trained and disciplined. They knew how to fire their weapons and they didn't show any emotion. – Kamaljeet Singh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's because we're scared and because we've stayed at home silently that we've ended up in this situation. – Patricia Fernandez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There might be an opening because some of the Arab states silently agree with (my position) ... (and) they might be in a position to influence the Palestinians to adopt a more conciliatory and positive approach. – Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are several scenarios where a person may put themselves in further harm by making a voice call, from victims of domestic abuse who are silently trying to get help to consumers who are hiding during a home invasion and don’t want to make noise and call attention to themselves. – Barbara Palmer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass, it failed... by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently... – Peter Maurer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can walk around and you don't hear anything, these elephants, they have these large feet and they travel silently through the fields. I think it's very peaceful. – Irvin Feld	Found on CNN 9 years ago

I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked.

– Merrick Garland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just like any chronic disease of aging -- high cholesterol, heart attacks, strokes -- they all start silently decades before they show up. Alzheimer's disease is no different, targeting them early on is the best recipe for optimal brain health as we age.

– Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jessica was becoming a textbook Mean Girl. I was being slowly swallowed alive by my anxiety, and Jake was silently watching it all happen, which was maybe the most disconcerting of all our reactions, our family was falling apart, and the stress of falling apart was making us fall apart even faster.

– Roseanne Barr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do want to put that time period in context, and the only way I could think to do so -- it may be a little theatrical, but I think it's appropriate, i want us all to get a concept of time. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to sit silently for one minute.

– Judge Timothy R. Walmsley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some can do that silently within the vehicle, even seated next to one another, others will need to pull over in a town or out on the road, and allow each other that space. Without planning a method for conflict management ahead of time, the van... can quickly become a toxic and unhealthy environment.

– Brian Laundrie

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Scientists are trained to discover and follow the facts, so I believe that we can not maintain our integrity or our credibility if we stand by silently while bad public health policies are damaging the UGA community.

– Jeff Bennetzen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

– Carl Sagan, Cosmos

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

My child, let your life come into the world of darkness like a spark of light, without flicker and pure, and thank them in silence. You know, my child, they are cruel in their greed and envy, their words are disguised knives thirsting for blood. But do not be afraid, my child, go and stand in their hearts, and let your gentle eyes fall on them like the forgiving serenity of the night. My child, let them see your face and so they know it meaning of all things, let them love and love one another. Go, at sunrise, open and lift up your heart like a blooming flower, and at sunset, bend your head and silently complete the worship of the day. Remember, my child, gods and demons, ghosts and elves are fragments of one, built by the hand of the abyss. So, move on, go to the shore of the vast darkness, there, is the Great Meeting of Children, there, the sea gives a smile to the beach, there, sing the waves facing death

– Alexis karpouzos

added by alexis_k
2 years ago

They never had the clinical syndrome of a thrombotic disorder. It was silently causing damage.

– Valentin Fuster

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm not sure the Chief Justice is fully aware of just how rare it is, how extraordinary it is, for the House members to be able to command the attention of senators sitting silently for hours, or even for minutes, for that matter, of course, it doesn't hurt that the morning starts out every day with the sergeant at arms warning you that, if you don't, you will be imprisoned.

– Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Everything that is being done, it turns out, is not for people or fans ... but just so officials can report on work that has allegedly been carried out, we were not consulted about anything that has been done. In our country there isn't a particular need for people or ideas, just for people who pay taxes and silently agree with everything.

– Yevgeny Chernov

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I returned home that evening without you, with an extreme and profound pain, that maybe, one day, will weaken, I don't know, this pain made me feel as close as ever to your colleagues, who are also suffering, as you do too, silently. As I do, silently.

– Etienne Cardiles

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When we looked at the data, we found a stable illness, not an increase, this had been happening silently.

– Christine Kihembo

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This had been happening silently.

– Christine Kihembo

Found on CNN
7 years ago

My neighbors didn’t believe that I could afford to power my house silently.

– Margaret Nduge

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I will not stand by, silently, as any false claims are made about dangers in Flint water….whether they were made by the State of Michigan falsely claiming the water was safe before October 2015, or by an actor who came to Flint after the federal emergency was declared and made unfounded allegations that the water was dangerous for showering or bathing.

– Marc Edwards

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

So I was thinking, what would happen if we just stood there silently?

– Marty Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you walk through shadows of fear, talk to me, I am here. Know that I am you and YOU are me, do not give up silently.

– Gordana Biernat

added by anonymous
8 years ago

They walked forward silently ... in front of my car. They fired about 10-15 bullets through the windscreen. All I could see was blood and broken glass, they were very well trained and disciplined. They knew how to fire their weapons and they didn't show any emotion.

– Kamaljeet Singh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's because we're scared and because we've stayed at home silently that we've ended up in this situation.

– Patricia Fernandez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There might be an opening because some of the Arab states silently agree with (my position) ... (and) they might be in a position to influence the Palestinians to adopt a more conciliatory and positive approach.

– Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are several scenarios where a person may put themselves in further harm by making a voice call, from victims of domestic abuse who are silently trying to get help to consumers who are hiding during a home invasion and don’t want to make noise and call attention to themselves.

– Barbara Palmer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass, it failed... by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently...

– Peter Maurer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You can walk around and you don't hear anything, these elephants, they have these large feet and they travel silently through the fields. I think it's very peaceful.

– Irvin Feld

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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