Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shay Mitchell

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

George Carlin

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Christopher Hitchens

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Christopher Hitchens

It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.

Christina Hoff Sommers

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Chris Rock

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

Chris Rock

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

Jack Whitehall

I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.

Golda Meir

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Ian Mckellen

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

Jay Asher

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

Elton John

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

Ellen DeGeneres

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

Chris Hayes

The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.

Josh Gad

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

Susan Boyle

When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

Susan Boyle

My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

Quentin Crisp

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

Robert Carlyle

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Morgan Brittany

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Miles Franklin

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

Mila Kunis

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Jonathan Davis

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

John Doolittle

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

James Patterson

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

Joe Nichols

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

John Lennon

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Lady Gaga

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Lady Gaga

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

Lady Gaga

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Julianne Hough

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

Ludovico Ariosto

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Olivia Colman

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.