Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Payton

When he bullies people, that's when he's at his best,

Sarah Silverman

I always want to laugh at the sad stuff. You don't need to laugh at the other stuff. I'm not numb to these things. I still go into really dark periods about Sept. 11. I think it's kind of like bullies. Bullies are just scared and thin-skinned, so they have to become bullies as a kind of survival tactic. I think comics are that way, too.

Mike Knezevich

Bullies are those pretending to have self-worth and self-esteem, but only through the humiliation, exploitation, or domination of others.

Bella Freud

I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Unfortunately, a group of bullies allows itself to deprive nations of their legal and natural rights. The Iranian nation is not frightened by the powers and their noise.

Neil Peart

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.

Jacqui Smith

Our view is that punishment should not be the last resort, that bullying should be punished and bullies must be made to understand the harm they have been doing,

Simon Schama

Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing... I don't want to be part of a story where Jews are just victims or bullies - and I'm not saying that's what the Israelis are.

Kevin Sheedy

Would have liked to the see the Bullies in the finals, West Coast. St Kilda is really exciting. I'd love to see St Kilda play Sydney Swans in the Grand Final.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Chris Colfer

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

Chris Colfer

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

Chris Christie

It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that.

Kurt Vonnegut

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Beyonce Knowles

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Derek Hough

Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice,

Derek Hough

Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion,

Cat Cora

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

John Adams

We're not going to put someone in a position where it's going to be harmful of their performance this weekend, but at the same time the team will represent itself proudly.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Ron Pollack

What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans.

Tim Ruskell

We're going to take it slow and see how Ken goes. There's still more testing. We would never want to do anything that would harm him as we go forward.

Arianna Huffington

We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Bashar al-Assad

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Suzanne Fields

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Christina Gallach

Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Barack Obama

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Kathy Collins

It is a terrible thing that happened, and they will be punished accordingly.

Kathie Brown

It just isn't right. Somebody should be punished for this.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

August Strindberg

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Charles Spurgeon

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Alan Parker

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Alan Perlis

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Akhmad Kadyrov

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

Chogyam Trungpa

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Chogyam Trungpa

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.