Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Rhys

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

Jean Vanier

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

Jhumpa Lahiri

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

Graham Greene

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Goldie Hawn

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

Gil Scott-Heron

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

Harper Lee

Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.

Harper Lee

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

Harper Lee

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Haley Webb

The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.

Haley Barbour

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

Gregory David Roberts

I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

Gregory David Roberts

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Gregory Maguire

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

Hooman Majd

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

Holly Near

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

Hope Solo

No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.

Holly Lisle

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Ian Somerhalder

Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Ian Somerhalder

I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Hugo Chavez

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Pau Gasol

I feel amazing. If they play straight up, I'm going to try and hurt them.

Ruben Sierra

I don't want to get hurt and miss September. I want to do it right now, and I'll be fine.

I don't think they hurt anything. They're controlled, they're monitored.

Ozzie Guillen

He's not hurt of anything. ... He's just tired.

He's hurt us in previous years, and he did what he does best.

Hugh Jackman

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

Homer

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Homer

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

Albert Pujols

If I hurt myself, it's part of the game. I get paid to play. I don't get paid to sit out.

I'd hurt my back two weeks prior and it progressively got worse,

I can't tell you how much I hurt.

I can't take too much right now. But I'll be all right. It didn't hurt that bad. I've taken a lot worse sometimes.