Unresponsiveness Quotes

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Talking to Karl Rove is like talking to a fire hydrant.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

I'm bad at returning phone calls.

Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.

If anyone asks me a fantasy football question or for help, I don't respond.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Some people don’t respond to civility.