Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andrea Dworkin

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

Andrea Dworkin

Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

Andrea Dworkin

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

Aesop

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

Aesop

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

Aesop

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

The controversy from 2000 is going to hurt her as a candidate.

E. B. White

Whether anyone's hurt or not hurt, I'm ready to play,

Jaret Wright

When it's your elbow, you don't want to hurt it any further. When it's bruised, you don't want to take any chances.

Jaret Wright

When it's your elbow, you don't want to hurt anything further. If it's bruised, you don't want to take any chances.

We're a little disappointed. There's some hurting going on. It was a real tough regional.

George H. W. Bush

When he says he's going to hurt the American people again, or try to, he means it. I take it seriously, and the people of NSA take it seriously.

To come out and not show up the one day we need to, that hurts the most.

We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet.

James Wolcott

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

Janis Joplin

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

Janis Joplin

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.

Janine Turner

I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.

Janet Jackson

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

Richard G. Scott

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.

Ricky Gervais

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

Ricky Gervais

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Ricky Gervais

Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission

Ricky Gervais

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.