“In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.” RealHomeSimpleDecisionSilenceResponsibilityShareMiddleColdConsequenceFinalsSoldierOver ItEnginesFlagsSenatorsRemindersCoffinsAmerican FlagAmerican SoldierCargoAluminum Author:John F. Kerry
“Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.” FeelsHappensActionLife IsResultsSilenceHellConsequenceInevitableDamnNothingnessScrewsImplicationsLoving SomeoneHow You FeelWhatever HappensScrewed Up Author:Janis Joplin
“To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?” TwoDifferentLightVoiceSilenceShareCostBenefitsShadowConsequenceThemeDifferent ExperiencesLight And Shadow Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.” WayTwoVoiceDealsSilenceKnownMediaEternalConsequenceVowTwo Ways Author:Andrew Linzey
“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.” FirstsKindBookStoriesFacesMotherCertainSilenceSawsTeacherWifeStudentsMaterialsConsequenceFeministIronyScoreShort StoryGraduatesChaptersFace To FaceNurturingBeing A WomanHousewifeEvaluationOne On OneGraduate StudentsWife Mother Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.” HeartChoicesDecisionSilenceTearsMinesConsequenceWarmBrokeShirtsAmyListen To MeWetness Author:Cindy Gerard
“Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?” IfsWellsMightHappensEyeFallChanceSecretSilencePiecesImpossibleProveLosingConsequenceCatOkaySizeWell BeingBetrayScratchesLapLiberatedKnotsRippedSpillingFelineLosing Friendship Author:Ellen Hopkins