Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Lowen

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Adele Faber

The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

Adele

Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead.

Adele

I won't let you close enough to hurt me.

Adam Savage

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

Adam Savage

If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more.

Adam Savage

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

Adam Sandler

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

Adam Duritz

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

Adam Carolla

I'd never hurt another person.

Adam Carolla

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

Amy Ray

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

Amy Poehler

Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys,

Amy Poehler

In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

Ally Carter

She pulled away and looked at him. 'I kissed you and you left.' When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.

Ally Carter

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

Ally Carter

Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.

Ally Carter

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

Ally Carter

rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

Allen Ginsberg

I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

Allan McNish

I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

Allan Sherman

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

Alison McGhee

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

Alison McGhee

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Alison Lurie

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

Ann Curry

When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.

Ann Brashares

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.

Ann Brashares

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

Ann Coulter

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Andrea Corr

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

Andrea Gibson

I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.