#gossip

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her... ↗

— Lynn Dove

#gossip #hypocrisy #rejection #religion #shooting-the-wounded

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback. ↗

— Kate Fox

#animated #detail #different #feedback #female

Gossip is more popular than literature. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#literature #more #popular #than

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#as far as #boxing #far #first #gossip

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

#depend #evidence #gossips #scientists #than

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#encouragement #gossip #happiness #life #experience

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#between #break #confession #gossip #men

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. ↗