Whistle Blowing Quotes & Sayings

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. — Michael Ondaatje

[T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing. — Peter Watts

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love. — Charles Spurgeon

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves. — Joseph O'Neill

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching! — Ray Bradbury

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything. — Liane Moriarty

If you separate from ... everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future ... and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity. — Marcus Aurelius

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle. — Tatum O'Neal

Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism. — Glenn Greenwald

Two people rarely see the same thing. — Agatha Christie

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners! — Bill Vaughan

Was it last month or last year
that the ambulance ran like a hearse
with its siren blowing on suicide -
Dinn, dinn, dinn! -
a noon whistle that kept insisting on life
all the way through the traffic lights?

I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!
That fellow-patient in his stovepipe hat
with his fiery joke, his manic smile -
even he seems blurred, small and pale.
I have come back,
recommitted,
fastened to the wall like a bathroom plunger,
held like a prisoner
who was so poor
he fell in love with jail. — Anne Sexton

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details. — Melissa Bank

The truth is, however, that there is nothing very "normal" about nature. Once upon a time there were no flowers at all. — Loren Eiseley

The Obama administration, which has brought more prosecutions against leakers than all prior presidencies combined, has sought to create a climate of fear that would stifle any attempts at whistle-blowing. But Snowden destroyed that template. He has managed to remain free, outside the grasp of the United States; what's more, he has refused to remain in hiding but proudly came forward and identified himself. As a result, the public image of him is not a convict in orange jumpsuit and shackles but and independent, articulate figure who can speak for himself, explaining what he did and why. — Glenn Greenwald