28 Quotes About Bystanders

  • Author Robert Reed
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    I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

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  • Author Alice Sebold
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    I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

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  • Author Howard Schultz
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    I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

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  • Author John Sentamu
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    To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.

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  • Author Elie Wiesel
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    I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

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  • Author Elie Wiesel
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    What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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