‘Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.’ – Bob Marley

‘Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.’ – Satchel Paige

‘We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.’ – Mother Teresa

‘A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.’ – Brene Brown

‘Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.’ – Willie Nelson

‘All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.’ – Charles M. Schulz

‘I have never been hurt by what I have not said.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.’ – Max Lerner

‘Nobody can hurt me without my permission.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.’ – Wale

‘For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.’ – Reba McEntire

‘No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.’ – Sheryl Swoopes

‘There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.’ – Randy Johnson

‘There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.’ – Rosa Parks

‘Bullying has always been around and there will always be people who thrive on the hurt they cause to others.’ – Trisha Paytas

‘It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.’ – Bill Hicks

‘A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.’ – Rumi

‘There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.’ – Zendaya

‘Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.’ – Joan Lunden

‘Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say ‘no.’ But saying ‘yes’ begins things. Saying ‘yes’ is how things grow.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else.’ – Edward Snowden

‘Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?’ – Diogenes

‘Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.’ – Ayrton Senna

‘Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn’t be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it’s not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.’ – John Steinbeck

‘Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn’t hurt people – except my ex-husbands, maybe.’ – Eugenie Clark

‘Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?’ – Mary Manin Morrissey

‘Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it’s not the person we’re resenting – it’s us.’ – Alana Stewart

‘One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.’ – Ovid

‘It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.’ – Tacitus

‘Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.’ – Tyler Perry

‘I don’t like to hold back, because that’s how you hurt yourself.’ – Chester Bennington

‘A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.’ – Harry Crews

‘The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.’ – Mahavira

‘I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.’ – Theodore Isaac Rubin

‘You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘The thing about the NFL is nobody cares. Nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels sorry for you… They don’t care if you’re hurt. They don’t care if you don’t feel good. You have a bad call. Play goes against you? No one cares. You’ve got to play. You’ve got to win.’ – Greg Olsen

‘Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.’ – Martin Garrix

‘You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.’ – Caleb Carr

‘Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.’ – Salvador Dali

‘With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.’ – Britney Spears

‘The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘I wish I’d known that apologizing is a sign of strength. I had the impression that if you apologize, it’s a sign of weakness. I kind of picked up the message from my father, ‘Real men don’t apologize. You just do your best, and if you happen to hurt some people, that’s their fault. You just go on. Don’t apologize. That’s a sign of weakness.” – Gary Chapman

‘Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody… as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.’ – Annie Lennox

‘Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.’ – Michael Jackson

‘I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.’ – Septima Poinsette Clark

‘I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself.’ – Hank Green

‘The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.’ – Nina Simone

‘Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.’ – Terry Brooks

‘If people have got a problem with me, say it to me. If you’re going to hurt my feelings, I’m going to point you out.’ – Adam Goodes

‘Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.’ – Mark Twain

‘My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.’ – Ronda Rousey

‘The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.’ – Che Guevara

‘It was never my intention to hurt people’s feelings.’ – Jesse Watters

‘Forgive those who have hurt you.’ – Les Brown

‘I would never intentionally want to hurt someone’s feelings.’ – Sara Bareilles

‘Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.’ – Clara Bow

‘You don’t hurt ’em if you don’t hit ’em.’ – Chesty Puller

‘This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.’ – Elizabeth Smart

‘I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.’ – Robin Williams

‘You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.’ – Teresa Giudice

‘Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.’ – Lawrence G. Lovasik

‘There’s ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.’ – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

‘People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.’ – Kanye West

‘I personally don’t like to diet. I think it’s stupid. You only live once. I do like to train just because of the simple reason that it doesn’t hurt as much. I need to keep myself strong as I can be. That’s just who I am as a man, and I think a lot of people have the same idea.’ – Bray Wyatt

‘I’m not a villain, I’ve never hurt anyone. I’m just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.’ – Oliver Reed

‘The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.’ – John McCain

‘It doesn’t hurt to show some empathy.’ – John Cornyn

‘Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what’s in place before the violence occurs.’ – John Edgar Wideman

‘I didn’t even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.’ – Rooney Mara

‘If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.’ – James E. Faust

‘I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don’t want to hurt anyone.’ – Arijit Singh

‘Your anger, frustration and your hurt – you have to try to put that all behind you and move on.’ – Darren Bent

‘We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.’ – Jackie Chan

‘I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.’ – Erykah Badu

‘When you say ‘control freak’ and ‘OCD’ and ‘organized,’ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘People can have rhinoceros skin, but there’s a point when something’s going to hurt you.’ – Janet Jackson

‘I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.’ – Ann Richards

‘I don’t come and fight for fun. I don’t do that. I don’t like to hurt people for fun.’ – Nate Diaz

‘It’s literally I’ll be injured or hurt in some facet and I’ll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.’ – Bryson DeChambeau

‘Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.’ – Francis Bacon

‘If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.’ – Diego Rivera

‘We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don’t want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.’ – Menachem Begin

‘It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.’ – Fred Woodworth

‘Only Americans can hurt America.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.’ – Matt Lauer

‘I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.’ – Billie Holiday

‘If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, ‘Do your damn homework,’ it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn’t hurt him at all. And if he doesn’t like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us – by the bicycle racks.’ – Gary Rossington

‘I realized that I get pleasure when I’m told, ‘Don’t listen to the haters; they’re losers in their moms’ basements.’ I imagine these ‘losers’ and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them ‘pathetic.’ I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I’m quick to make a joke at someone else’s expense.’ – Julie Plec

‘You must come out. Come out… to your parents… I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth!’ – Harvey Milk

‘Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It’s sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn’t hurt.’ – Andy Rooney

‘There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can’t live your life and not hurt people.’ – Fiona Apple

‘Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan

‘Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.’ – Casey Stengel

‘My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‘Hurt Feelings Report’ and let’s move on.’ – John Kennedy

‘I didn’t know how to show my self love, and I didn’t want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, ‘I’m not having it.” – Mary J. Blige

‘The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.’ – Peter Coyote

‘The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it’s no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.’ – Michael Vick

‘I have to give moral support to my supporters. If I’m not going to fight anymore, that might hurt the feelings of my supporters. They are fighting for democracy. They are fighting for the rule of law.’ – Thaksin Shinawatra

‘Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘I’d like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn’t matter, but it doesn’t hurt.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.’ – Hank Azaria

‘Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘I’m not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don’t stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It’s my passion. It’s what I want to do with my life. It’s a part of what I do.’ – Tony Stewart

‘The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.’ – Mary Kay Andrews

‘Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.’ – Ariana Grande

‘I’m no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn’t stopped there… And touring is a lot of work. I’m impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it’s gotta hurt somewhere.’ – Steve Perry

‘In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.’ – Sia

‘I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn’t get hurt. And I don’t mean ‘believe’ – I mean believe believe believe.’ – Jake LaMotta

‘The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, ‘Does it hurt?’ or ‘What were you thinking about just now?’ The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one’s life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘I never think: ‘If I crash, I’m going to hurt myself.’ I might think: ‘If I crash, I’m not going to win.’ Everything’s about that finish line.’ – Mark Cavendish

‘I regret so much. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve hurt people. I’ve done things I’m not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?’ – Faye Dunaway

‘Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.’ – Joe Keery

‘The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I look at Mike Tyson as a fighter. He don’t go out there to play. He goes out there to hurt because he’s in the hurt game. That’s what I like about him.’ – Nigel Benn

‘Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they’ve experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.’ – Karamo Brown

‘I’ve never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.’ – Blake Lively

‘I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It’s very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn’t hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.’ – Lucy Hale

‘Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.’ – Ernest Gaines

‘We’re getting hurt, but I’m a long-term investor.’ – Al-Waleed bin Talal

‘It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.’ – Willie Nelson

‘Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.’ – Lex Luger

‘There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.’ – Alain de Botton

‘Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let’s face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.’ – Rick Pitino

‘Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that .’ – Diana Ross

‘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 McNish

‘Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.’ – Joe Frazier

‘Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.’ – Johnny Carson

‘When Messi has the ball centrally, with time, he has so many options to hurt you.’ – Lothar Matthaus

‘I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.’ – Rihanna

‘I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.’ – Lance Armstrong

‘I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.’ – Anthony Ray Hinton

‘What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck.’ – Shemar Moore

‘It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.’ – Debbie Ford

‘I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they’re necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that’s dangerous and they’ll boomerang.’ – Richard Chamberlain

‘I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don’t have the nerve for it, I’m too anxious. I don’t know how you’re not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they’re real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don’t really know you, and that’s true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?’ – Bo Burnham

‘Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that’s why they never hit any home runs. It’s a safety issue.’ – Jay Leno

‘I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.’ – Ratan Tata

‘When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‘I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.’ ‘Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.’ ‘They probably don’t even realize how they sound.” – Joyce Meyer

‘I can’t sight-read classical etudes – I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It’s like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant.’ – Steve Lukather

‘Any time you’re working in the world of taming animals, you’re going to get hurt. But it’s a rush that we get.’ – Cesar Millan

‘A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.’ – Joe Biden

‘The ‘Downward Spiral’ album was a record all about beating everybody up – and then ‘Hurt’ was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn’t have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise.’ – Trent Reznor

‘My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn’t actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.’ – Molly Ivins

‘I’ve been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.’ – Ernie Pyle

‘None of this was written to hurt anybody’s feelings.’ – Ric Flair

‘Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it’s funny, it doesn’t hurt anymore.’ – Pete Davidson

‘Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.’ – Jose Ortega y Gasset

‘I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘If your cat’s up a tree, you call the fire department. If someone’s hurt, you call the fire department. If there’s a mudslide or your house is on fire, you call the fire department. They’re our first line of defense.’ – Lorne Greene

‘I want to make sure I don’t interfere with the success of that team next year. I don’t see any way I could go to practice like most of ’em do, and not hurt the team. I’d go nuts if I tried doing that.’ – Bear Bryant

‘If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.’ – James Hillman

‘Play fair. Don’t hit people. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.’ – Paul Auster

‘Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that.’ – Rita Ora

‘For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, ‘No no no nooo!’ You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who’s trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn’t.’ – Paul Haggis

‘The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.’ – Carl Bernstein

‘I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn’t play ball too good – I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn’t preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.’ – Muddy Waters

‘For years, I’ve admired wrist tattoos, but I was always afraid that they would hurt – I’m kind of a weenie about pain. In fact, it’s why I wear so many bracelets on my left wrist. The bracelets represented the words or phrases I’d want to get tattooed but didn’t have the courage to.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.’ – Etta James

‘You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don’t ever want to hurt anybody doing it.’ – Yanni

‘It can’t hurt to go to the people you love, whose blood type courses through your veins and whose DNA, from a certain angle, contains many of the same markings as yours. You don’t have to take their advice, but let them share their version of solutions to life’s difficulties. Good or bad – it could be interesting.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘I guess everyone’s had an experience when they felt overlooked, ditched, hurt or taken for granted. Where they felt like the only one behaving with common sense but still got the short end of the stick. We all feel like the odd one out at some point.’ – Shannon Purser

‘The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.’ – Roger Ailes

‘When you weight train, take your ego out of the equation. If you pick up a giant rack and start squatting, you can throw out your back in a heartbeat, but you’d have to do hundreds of bodyweight squats with poor alignment to hurt yourself.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘I’ve learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It’s their opinions, their perceptions – it’s a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.’ – Steven Bauer

‘Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone – you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.’ – Dave Van Ronk

”Hurt Village’ is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I’m focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see ‘Hurt Village’ as a natural extension of ‘The Mountaintop.” – Katori Hall

‘Shirley Temple doesn’t hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend – which I am!’ – Shirley Temple

‘The last thing I want to do is anything to hurt the team.’ – Brad Marchand

‘I think I’m working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.’ – Charli D’Amelio

‘I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody’s feelings.’ – David Ortiz

‘My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.’ – Michael Franti

‘At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.’ – Tionne Watkins

‘Why can’t women get along? Because we’re afraid. We’re afraid to be vulnerable. We’re afraid to be soft. We’re afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we’re afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don’t. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I’ve broken my right knee many times and it doesn’t hurt a bit.’ – Terry Fox

‘They always use the word ‘insult’ with me, but I don’t hurt anybody. I wouldn’t be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.’ – Don Rickles

‘Movies are movies, and I don’t think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.’ – Richard Pryor

‘A little makeover never hurt nobody.’ – Justin Tranter

‘Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.’ – Joyce Brothers

‘I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog – or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.’ – Peter Dinklage

‘What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don’t, then I’m not likely to get hurt myself.’ – Stan Musial

‘That’s the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There’s nothing that’s hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I’m lucky.’ – Roman Reigns

‘I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We’ve got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.’ – Bobby Knight

‘You can always forgive; that doesn’t mean you’re going to ever forget. You might walk around with hurt.’ – Rev. Run

‘You know that big government doesn’t hurt big corporations. They’ve got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It’s the little guys.’ – Marco Rubio

‘I am hurt that some people criticise very harshly without even realising the hardships which we go through.’ – Hima Das

‘Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.’ – John Muir

‘America is dumb. It’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you – aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I’d like them to see America as a toy – a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.’ – Johnny Depp

‘By getting hurt, you might realize that what you thought you wanted and needed wasn’t actually right for you. And that’s a lesson only heartbreak and pain can teach you.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.’ – Johnny Iuzzini

‘With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.’ – Tom Petty

‘See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.’ – Giordano Bruno

‘Express yourself, don’t hurt yourself.’ – Tommy Wiseau

‘I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.’ – Tiger Woods

‘Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn’t want to show them that it hurt.’ – Theo Walcott

‘I have values. But morals are Christian. There’s no religion here. Values. Don’t hurt when you don’t need to, but don’t let anybody step over that line – it’s an invisible line, but it’s respect for somebody’s space.’ – John Lydon

‘No man is hurt but by himself.’ – Diogenes

‘If you don’t give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don’t hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘You start projecting hurt and pain onto yourself when you don’t find closure. Be honest with the situation and yourself, clean the wound, and move on.’ – Jay Shetty

‘Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.’ – Brian May

‘Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.’ – Satchel Paige

‘I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they’ve made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!’ – Mindy Kaling

‘Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys’ heads. Even though he couldn’t bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he’d get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.’ – Dale Steyn

‘Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you’re in love, and then you find out that you’re not because you’re not really hurting. But when it’s real love, then it’s gonna hurt. It’s supposed to hurt because it’s real.’ – Babyface

‘You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team’ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘Sugar makes me feel crazy – like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don’t really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something – something that I’m missing.’ – SZA

‘I never let anyone lose their self-respect and make them wait in my office, or hurt them with my words, thoughts or actions. I give my e-mail address to anyone who seeks me out. I ask them to send me their work, and if I like it, I give them an opportunity.’ – D. Imman

‘It doesn’t ever hurt to try different stuff.’ – Aaron Donald

‘We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It’s never fun to see a child hurt, even if it’s just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.’ – Darell Hammond

‘Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby’s cast when he hurt his hand.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.’ – Rosa Parks

‘When lab safety procedures aren’t followed, people can get hurt or worse. Lab equipment and chemicals that are improperly handled can result in personal injury and even death.’ – Abdul Qadeer Khan

‘Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.’ – Agnes Repplier

‘My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I’m in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I’m going to try to get him out of there. If I’m in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I’m going to look for that. I don’t feel the need to prove the haters wrong.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘My grandma told me, don’t get into trouble. I know how hard she worked to take care of her own nine kids and my mama’s three. And I just never wanted to hurt her. I never wanted to do something that would embarrass her.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn’t go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.’ – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

‘Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.’ – Steve Young

‘In 2018 I really hurt my back, my lower back, and it’s been a couple of years where we finally found out that I have an extra vertebra in my back.’ – Jessica Long

‘I am the president of Poland, and I will never accept Poles being insulted or humiliated or facts being distorted that hurt our dignity.’ – Andrzej Duda

‘Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that’s where he got his character ‘the tramp’ from. It’s a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.’ – Chris Tucker

‘When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you’ve got a dangerous man on your hands.’ – Deontay Wilder

‘There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It’s not going to work.’ – Dave Ramsey

‘It doesn’t have to be somebody getting hurt to get excitement in the octagon.’ – Matt Hughes

‘To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.’ – David Viscott

‘I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.’ – Anthony Weiner

‘If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society.’ – Ralphie May

‘When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.’ – John Eldredge

‘The most fascinating powers don’t mean a thing if the guy’s poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won’t hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it’s his motivation that makes him the character he is.’ – Kurt Busiek

”Through the times I’ve gone through the last couple of weeks – and I’m still trying to help a friend – I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.’ – Michael Irvin

‘I could really make a song of hurt, because I’ve been hurt by a lot of men. I’m talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don’t answer my calls.’ – Cardi B

‘It’s become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.’ – Jessica Valenti

‘Many people told me not to call the book ‘… Refugee’ because Aussies won’t buy it. I told them I have faith in Aussies, and it makes me a proud Aussie to see that the title hasn’t hurt the book.’ – Anh Do

‘Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.’ – Alberta Hunter

‘There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn’t feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that’s why I completely fell apart.’ – Sulli

‘I’ve known for years that resentments don’t hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.’ – Anne Lamott

‘I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.’ – Diane Arbus

‘I know I don’t throw very hard anymore, but I’d like to think I can still hurt a guy who’s not looking.’ – Greg Maddux

‘I’m a complete human being. I’m very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I’m a sociologist, anthropologist.’ – Erykah Badu

‘It’s important to be gentle about my routines. I’ve learned that the hard way. When I’m really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I’ve had to learn how to pay attention. It’s a kind of mind-set.’ – Lisa Edelstein

‘I’m sorry I’m perceived as an element that’s dangerous. I’ve never tried to hurt anybody. I’m interested in scoring points; pinning and winning.’ – Dave Schultz

‘What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can’t do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt… Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn’t going to be any United States.’ – Chesty Puller

‘When I started wrestling, I hounded my dad to teach me. Eventually, he gave in, but he was careful to instill in me a respect for other wrestlers. He wanted to be sure I wasn’t going to hurt anyone.’ – Eddie Guerrero

‘It can’t hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it’s all good.’ – Keith David

‘Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what’s been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.’ – Drew Bledsoe

‘Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I’m asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘We don’t talk about things, and in certain communities we really don’t talk about our feelings. It’s just, ‘Put it in a box and forget about it, push it to the back.’ That’s something I think has hurt us as a society.’ – Brittney Griner

‘My first quote was, I don’t want to hurt God’s people. Jim Bakker’s quote was, I was set up by a female.’ – Jessica Hahn

‘There’s definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn’t my time yet.’ – Chris Kyle

‘When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can’t lie like that anymore.’ – Matt Dillon

‘A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.’ – Taylor Kitsch

‘We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can’t give up.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘The old way, we never told a booker or a promoter anything. We didn’t tell them when we were hurt. We’d be there with a broken ankle and still going to work, tape it up and go because we were scared of losing a job or a spot.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘Most chick singers say ‘if you hurt me, I’ll die’… I say, ‘if you hurt me, I’ll kick your ass.” – Pat Benatar

‘I won’t feel I’m Roman’s boss just because I’m his dad. I’ve never had that relationship with him at all. It wasn’t the way we brought him up. We were friends. If Roman did something wrong, I showed that he hurt me rather than telling him off.’ – Martin Kemp

‘School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.’ – Kate Bush

‘Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.’ – Willie Nelson

‘We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.’ – Louis Nizer

‘It’s been a long journey. Continued to work through my rookie year. I was hurt a lot. Up and down.’ – Austin Rivers

‘I think we’ve all been kind of… everyone’s been hurt, everyone’s felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you’re pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I won’t let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.’ – Ayelet Shaked

‘I just like the continue doing what I’ve been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn’t hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I’ll be a very happy person.’ – Mary Tyler Moore

‘Most people in our field are very overconfident, so you always believe you can do more than you can. But the fear is what makes it exciting, what keeps you on your toes. People that are truly fearless, they’ll be hurt before they ever get good enough to do it.’ – Travis Pastrana

‘You want to show your people that you value them, and you’re not going to hurt them just to get a little more money in the short term. Not furloughing people breeds loyalty. It breeds a sense of security. It breeds a sense of trust.’ – Herb Kelleher

‘I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table… During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn’t have any food for us for Thanksgiving.’ – Tony Bennett

‘After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.’ – Sterling Marlin

‘So many transgender people in the community are being covered with this umbrella of misconception that we are going to hurt someone. But we are not trying to hurt anyone.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘I don’t like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn’t have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.’ – Kali Uchis

‘Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.’ – Denis Diderot

‘The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.’ – Stephen Stills

‘Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you’re hurt, you’re really on your own. You’re alone, and there’s no one to help you.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.’ – Brennan Manning

‘I’d like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.’ – Susie Orbach

‘When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.’ – Dick Butkus

‘The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I just worry a lot. I’m a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don’t want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It’s a lot to ask of people, and it’s a lot to see your friends go through. It’s hard not to get emotional.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family – that’s my strength as well. I’m truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I’m happy!’ – Selena Gomez

‘We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there’s a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don’t make it to the NFL and don’t have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.’ – Aaron Rodgers

‘I can’t hurt any more than I’ve been hurt, I can’t cry any more than I’ve cried. I’ve been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I’m going to find my middle ground and be happy.’ – Cheryl Cole

‘That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren’t many parts for lions.’ – Bert Lahr

‘Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.’ – Robert Scoble

‘I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.’ – Oded Fehr

‘The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It’s the ability of everybody to live their life and build their life according to what they want, so long as they don’t hurt anybody else.’ – Kane

‘A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.’ – George Crabbe

‘Not missing games, miss one game due to injury in my career, and that even hurt me to miss that game, but I just love to get out there and compete, both ends of the ball, and I don’t think I’m afraid to take the big shot. If I’m 2-for-15, I’m not afraid to take that shot, make it 3-for-16.’ – Klay Thompson

‘Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else’s injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn’t hurt?’ – Peyton Manning

‘I don’t mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.’ – Limmy

‘Do not suppress it – that would hurt you inside. Do not express it – this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘One thing I am not is a dirty player. And I hang my hat on being a hard worker. I am a respected man in this league, and I hope that people look at that and know me as who I am, and I would never go that far, trying to hurt somebody.’ – Marcus Morris

‘You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‘Of course they like it. They should like it.” – Paul Auster

‘I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.’ – Dana Hill

‘Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I’m an AI technologist.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘For the scene where I had to taste dirt, I was ready to do it for real. But our amazing art team said it would hurt my teeth and created fake dirt out of chocolate on ice cream Pig Bar.” – Lee Je-hoon

‘Sometimes it’s great to have a backbone, but you’ve got to be careful. Remember that sometimes, when you hurt your backbone, you can’t get it fixed because you don’t have enough money.’ – Terry Funk

‘The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.’ – Lillian Smith

”Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.’ – Richard Chamberlain

‘The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone’s eye out, I would laugh. And then I’d say, ‘I’m sorry, I really do feel bad,’ but then I’m on the floor rolling.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries – and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.’ – Bam Margera

‘Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there’s no fear in what I do. I write books.’ – James Frey

‘Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God’s suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘I don’t think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don’t think that’s the story. We don’t play this game to hurt one another.’ – Michael Vick

‘Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘I’m so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women’s feelings.’ – Sam Kinison

‘It’s tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn’t want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn’t want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.’ – Derrick Rose

‘Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.’ – Kanye West

‘I don’t want him to hurt himself. I don’t want him to choke on something. You’re just so concerned for them, and it hurts you. It’s so alarming, man. I feel it for the people around me, but it’s deeper for my son. Only a parent would understand.’ – Damian Lillard

‘Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can’t hurt me.’ – Whitney Cummings

‘You’re always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. I think I’m going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it’s the right time.’ – Amir Khan

‘For every action, there will always be a reaction. Actually, people who do wrong to me or hurt me, something unpleasant surely happens to them. So, I don’t have faith in taking revenge.’ – Zareen Khan

‘I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry – I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.’ – Sheryl Swoopes

‘I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I think it’s really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.’ – Ciara

‘Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.’ – Fiona Apple

‘I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.’ – Kenny Omega

‘Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.’ – John Hawkins

‘Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.’ – Paul Tillich

‘I have the duty to protect my people, hurt my enemy, do the best I can with as few uninvolved casualties as possible – I can’t have zero innocent casualties – and at minimum risk to the lives of our soldiers.’ – Benny Gantz

‘I was called everything ugly and black in the world. Man, those where some tough times. They called me Fat Albert, Magilla Gorilla, black ape. It all hurt.’ – Mark Henry

‘All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‘Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.” – Marilyn Monroe

‘When I hit the ball, I do want to hurt it.’ – Bryce Harper

‘Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.’ – Josh Peck

‘I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no one, nowhere that the former prime minister will become terrorist to hurt their own country. No way.’ – Thaksin Shinawatra

‘If there’s one thing I’ve shown, I’m not scared of physicality. I’m not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.’ – Roman Reigns

‘A REAL man would never lead a woman on, try to humiliate or hurt them, or try to intimidate them once you have broken up for the sake of more camera time or fame.’ – Kenya Moore

‘I don’t want to hurt anybody.’ – Terry Bradshaw

‘I try to break a sweat every day doing something. Try to do hot pilates once a week. I’m not kidding. I actually hurt myself doing hot pilates, so I got that going for me.’ – Forrest Griffin

‘All my life, I heard, ‘Stop daydreaming,’ ‘Get over yourself,’ ‘You’ll never get there,’ ‘Aim lower,’ ‘You’ll hurt yourself,’ from teachers, family, and friends.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.’ – Dee Dee Myers

‘Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.’ – Siegfried Lenz

‘There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles… We’ve all had someone who has hurt us. So let’s talk about it.’ – Mary Lambert

‘There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn’t want to hurt a girl, so I don’t know if I really won – I’d like to think I did.’ – Jaimie Alexander

‘I’ll never forget, Jill Ellis, the U.S. national team coach, texted me and said: ‘Welcome to the coaching fraternity, you haven’t coached unless you’ve been fired.’ It was the most powerful thing anyone could have told me. Of course it hurt like hell, but it was an important learning curve.’ – Emma Hayes

‘I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they’re helping me. I’m not that kind of person.’ – Billy Preston

‘Imitation is the best form of flattery; people generally understand that my comedy is not intended to hurt anybody. Occasionally, an actor might take exception, but they should just understand that it is all done in good humour.’ – Vivek

‘You never know what to expect in life, so just roll with the punches and make the most of it. Because you’ve only got one life and you may as well have a really lovely time. And try not to hurt anybody on the way.’ – Lisa Stansfield

‘When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.’ – Brene Brown

‘Lotsa people want to hurt me. That’s the price you pay for being a big mouth.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you’re hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.’ – Peyton Manning

‘When my record company rejected ‘Full Moon Fever’, I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I’d never had anything rejected; I’d never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.’ – Tom Petty

‘I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.’ – Ian McLagan

‘The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.’ – Ari Aster

‘Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘There’s a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don’t think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.’ – John John Florence

‘Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.’ – David Suzuki

‘I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Boxing never hurt me at all.’ – Jake LaMotta

‘I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn’t hurt so much.’ – Zubin Mehta

‘That’s one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.’ – Luke Wilson

‘I’m not going to have the TV personality and be like, ‘There’s no bitterness. There’s no ugliness.’ There’s bitterness. There’s ugliness. There’s pain. There’s greed. There’s malice, and there’s hurt. That’s all good stuff for any kind of art. I’m not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.’ – Pete Holmes

‘The thing about wrestling in front of eight people in a bingo hall is that the spots still hurt. The chops still hurt. Your body still hurts the next day. But when you love wrestling, it doesn’t matter. You do it for the pride and the respect of the business.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn’t believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.’ – Daniel Keys Moran

‘One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.’ – Temple Grandin

‘In some ways, I think ‘Pulp Fiction’ hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to ‘Pulp Fiction.” – Roger Avary

‘I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency – I think that needs to come to an end.’ – Milo Yiannopoulos

‘I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.’ – Sean Young

‘Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.’ – Laura Wasser

‘Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.’ – Alain de Botton

‘Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.’ – Taylor Swift

‘We know that we’ve done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn’t the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren’t so, and regret that hurt.’ – Megan Phelps-Roper

‘I’d knock people over and bruise their pride, but I never went out to hurt people. That is not acceptable, and I don’t want to see it in my team.’ – Mark Hughes

‘Even close people left me – I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.’ – Sulli

‘One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘When I was on ‘Hurt Bert’ on FX – and I’m not crapping on FX, I’m just being honest – there was a point when I realized that they didn’t care if I died. If I died, they’d say ‘Of course it’s a legal thing, but think of the numbers.” – Bert Kreischer

‘You have to push yourself when you’re older because it’s very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart – you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don’t hurt so much.’ – Iris Apfel

‘I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I’m like, ‘Great, you’ve doubled your audience. But you’ve also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn’t that hurt?’ It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.’ – Bo Burnham

‘Of course, everyone has their own different wounds, and they’re hurt in different ways.’ – Seo Yea-ji

‘The first time I had money, I was extravagant, but then you realise it’s not just about that. If I lost it all tomorrow, it wouldn’t be me that’s hurt, it would be my babies. It would be more about people’s opinion of me that would concern me.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become ‘The Hate U Give.” – Angie Thomas

‘I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.’ – Nikki Giovanni

‘The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.’ – Jacob Bronowski

‘For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt.’ – Dan Rather

‘If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn’t be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt… retire?’ – Maria Callas

‘Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.’ – B. B. King

‘I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.’ – Magic Johnson

‘Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ I don’t beg so much as command to differ.’ – Inga Muscio

‘Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha – despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear – and recognize what unites us as human beings.’ – Tulsi Gabbard

‘A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn’t want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.’ – Denise Richards

‘I’ve been in this business my whole life. I’m pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.’ – Tina Yothers

‘To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.’ – William Jay Smith

‘I’m not so mean. I wouldn’t ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.’ – Dick Butkus

‘I don’t like to hurt people, I really don’t like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.’ – Jack Anderson

‘He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.’ – Herbert Gold

‘A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.’ – Edna St. Vincent Millay

‘My mother was watching on television and she doesn’t want me to hurt anyone.’ – George Foreman

‘There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.’ – Francis Bacon

‘I used to hurt so badly that I’d ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That’s the way I see it.’ – Eden Phillpotts

‘You generally hear that what a man doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him, but in business what a man doesn’t know does hurt.’ – Gerald Brenan

‘We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.’ – Jeff Cooper

‘To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.’ – Olivia Newton-John

‘Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.’ – Dick Armey

‘When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.’ – Jane Fonda

‘Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay… Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.’ – Chaz Bono

‘Commitments the voters don’t know about can’t hurt you.’ – Ogden Nash

‘A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.’ – Nadine Gordimer

‘The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won’t hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.’ – Earl Weaver

‘The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.’ – Ty Cobb

‘I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn’t do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I’m glad I didn’t.’ – Niki Taylor

‘Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.’ – Armand Hammer

‘Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.’ – William J. Clinton

‘I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.’ – Jessamyn West

‘We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits – and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.’ – Simone Weil

‘George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.’ – Wesley Clark

‘All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.’ – John Gray

‘Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.’ – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

‘I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.’ – Dick Butkus

‘I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘My goal is the same as every year – to not hurt myself.’ – Bode Miller

‘The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.’ – Ahmet Necdet Sezner

‘My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.’ – Conrad Veidt

‘The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.’ – Maria Edgeworth

‘I don’t hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.’ – Gary Coleman

‘It’s a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It’s funny and accessible.’ – Johnny Knoxville

‘There’s not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings… I’m not coming at you, what I’m saying is that, I’m willing to take that heat for my team, if we’re playing well or if we’re not playing well.’ – Vince Carter

‘Love’s an excuse to get hurt.’ – Conor Oberst

‘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 Corr

‘Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn’t want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.’ – Jack Bruce

‘I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.’ – Ving Rhames

‘To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.’ – David Soul

‘I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.’ – Hussein of Jordan

‘Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.’ – William Henry Hudson

‘Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.’ – Perry Farrell

‘It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody’s face when you’re finished and packing, it’s the best smile in the world; and there’s nobody hurt, and the well’s under control.’ – Red Adair

‘I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. Who’s to be the judge of that?’ – Loretta Young

‘If anybody says their facelift doesn’t hurt, they’re lying. It was like I’d spent the night with an axe murderer.’ – Sharon Osbourne

‘I just want to be healthy and happy. I don’t want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that’s a philosophy then that’s my philosophy.’ – Chad Michael Murray

‘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.’ – Allan Sherman

‘It’s part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There’s so much hurt in this world and… music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.’ – Ricky Skaggs

‘My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.’ – Geoffrey Rush

‘Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them – who would want to hurt an actor? – but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn’t recognize them.’ – James Caan

‘When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.’ – Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

‘I didn’t really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.’ – David Gest

‘Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.’ – Phyllis Schlafly

‘I’m not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity’s problem rather than my personal problem.’ – Robert Guillaume

‘Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.’ – Keith Sweat

‘It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.’ – Scott McCallum

‘Maybe I’ll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.’ – Victoria Jackson

‘God knows, I never want to hurt someone’s feelings.’ – Selma Blair

‘I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn’t have everybody in the tournament.’ – Tim Buckley

‘There were so many stories about Bing’s daughter living in sin. We weren’t hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn’t understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.’ – Mary Crosby

‘If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.’ – Louise Fletcher

‘The problem to me is violence. It’s not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I’ve never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.’ – Peter Benchley

‘Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.’ – Lizzie Andrew Borden

‘I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn’t hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn’t affect anyone – come on.’ – Rob Zombie

‘I definitely feel, when I’m wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.’ – Joan Severance

‘I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don’t want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.’ – James Ellroy

‘I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.’ – Michael Shanks

‘Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.’ – Charles Vest

‘I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they’re going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.’ – Chester Brown

‘Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.’ – Maynard James Keenan

‘It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.’ – Robert Teeter

‘I don’t go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don’t have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.’ – Bubba Smith

‘It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.’ – Mary Garden

‘The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.’ – John Doolittle

‘I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don’t have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn’t pawn this off on anybody. I’m sorry it happened. And I hurt people.’ – Louie Anderson

‘There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.’ – John Astin

‘When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.’ – Jim Otto

‘I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.’ – Kathie Lee Gifford

‘People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it’s part of what we do.’ – Lawrence Taylor

‘Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.’ – Louise Slaughter

‘The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn’t hurt anyone, it’s just plain foolish not to take it.’ – Mink Stole

‘There’s nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn’t want to get in there to hurt anybody.’ – Robert Goulet

‘There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.’ – Bobby Flay

‘It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.’ – Al Kaline

‘Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn’t hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.’ – Bryan Robson

‘I’ve been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you’re walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn’t be hurt by that, you’d just think it’s weird.’ – Chuck Klosterman

‘When it was over my daughter said, ‘Oh, I felt so sorry for him – he didn’t want to hurt you, he liked you.’ That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.’ – Fay Wray

‘I realize now I didn’t really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.’ – LaToya Jackson

‘It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.’ – Vincent D’Onofrio

‘In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.’ – Phil Lesh

‘Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.’ – Isabella Rossellini

‘I wouldn’t like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.’ – Oliver Reed

‘I don’t want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don’t want to not be me.’ – Melanie Chisholm

‘It’s not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.’ – Sue Wicks

‘This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she’s in a very different place in life.’ – Julianne Moore

‘I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won’t ever happen again.’ – Christopher Darden

‘Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don’t turn out the way you’re given the impression that they will. And I think that’s all kind of a con. But I think we’ve probably all been hurt.’ – Sigourney Weaver

‘We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don’t think you should do that.’ – Ian St. John

‘I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.’ – Lauren Bush

‘You can’t listen to what people who aren’t musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don’t want to hear, ‘Your kid is ugly.’ But I knew the record was good and it would sell.’ – Brian McKnight

‘Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.’ – Philip Zimbardo

‘I do like to work with young directors because it’s such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.’ – Ellen Burstyn

‘I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.’ – Jim Bakker

‘Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people’s art because they can’t do it themselves. It’s a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.’ – Rosanna Arquette

‘Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don’t hurt anyone on the way up. I don’t think I did that.’ – Dawn Fraser

‘When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.’ – Chief Joseph

‘And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.’ – Sanford I. Weill

‘Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.’ – Temple Grandin

‘Because that’s just the way it is, and don’t sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can… not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.’ – Thierry Henry

‘Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city – trying to make it as an actor – because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you’re super tired and your feet hurt.’ – Piper Perabo

‘Everyone has determination – it’s a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn’t care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we’re very, very different.’ – Dannii Minogue

‘I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.’ – Robert Casey

‘Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.’ – Robert Kirkman

‘I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.’ – Willie Aames

‘One thing that’s great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn’t rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won’t hurt my career.’ – Joe Pantoliano

‘I’d never do a film that would hurt anyone’s sentiments, be it Indian or not.’ – Akshay Kumar

‘Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.’ – Aldrich Ames

‘These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.’ – Edmund White

‘The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.’ – Joe Baca

‘Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn’t hurt your appreciation of the painting.’ – Jodie Foster

‘It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn’t stand seeing them hurt like this.’ – Quincy Jones

‘They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.’ – Ted Lindsay

‘I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.’ – Alexis Korner

‘I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.’ – Merlin Olsen

‘I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that’s about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.’ – Tom Berenger

‘I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.’ – Kathy Acker

‘I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.’ – Zane Grey

‘I’m not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don’t want me as they feel I might get hurt so that’s fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.’ – Larry Holmes

‘I have reason to be shy. I’ve been hurt plenty.’ – Ethel Waters

‘I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.’ – Nat King Cole

‘Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.’ – Jupiter Hammon

‘I just like to catch fish, I don’t care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can’t do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.’ – Terry Bradshaw

‘My personal life was fair game. And that’s what hurt me.’ – Marla Maples

‘I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!’ – Susan Smith

‘I was in love with someone very much, but he didn’t love me and never would. I had a very difficult time accepting that. But I had hurt him very much, and I could see why he could never love me.’ – Susan Smith

‘My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.’ – Susan Smith

‘If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I’d wind up kicking myself.’ – Mike Weir

‘With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.’ – Neil LaBute

‘And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can’t find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.’ – Bruce Nauman

‘I didn’t get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.’ – Jimmy Piersall

‘People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.’ – Emanuel Celler

‘Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry – especially the medium sized businesses – and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.’ – Angela Merkel

‘I did everything by the seat of my pants. That’s why I got hurt so much.’ – Evel Knievel

‘Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.’ – Joe Rogan

‘It never hurt Lenny Bruce’s career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.’ – Joe Rogan

‘This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.’ – Bob Ney

‘People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it’s most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.’ – Ashley Judd

‘Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after.’ – Elizabeth Wurtzel

‘When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you’re using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.’ – Lucy Liu

‘It’s only been a couple of times in my life that I’ve really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.’ – Richard Donner

‘I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can’t hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.’ – Patty Hearst

‘Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.’ – Boris Kodjoe

‘It’s always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you’re always afraid that you don’t know your own strength and might hurt someone.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she’s blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn’t prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.’ – Judy Davis

‘OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.’ – Maya Lin

‘I really didn’t mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.’ – Mark David Chapman

‘When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.’ – Carter Burwell

‘Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘This is a tough game. There are times when you’ve got to play hurt, when you’ve got to block out the pain.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.’ – Gunther Schuller

‘I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ – Eli Wallach

‘Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.’ – David Neeleman

‘I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark’s happier. I’m sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I’ve offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.’ – Scott Stapp

‘I’ve often talked about that, and I’ve been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.’ – Wink Martindale

‘The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.’ – Will McDonough

‘A lot of times people’s main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there’s enough good people that help make the world a good place.’ – Tina Yothers

‘I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.’ – Jessica Hahn

‘We feel that what’s too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.’ – Bobby Farrelly

‘Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.’ – Stan Mikita

‘But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.’ – Emma Thompson

‘And some people, you’ve got to lock up. If you don’t, they’re going to hurt you.’ – Judge Mills Lane

‘Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn’t even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.’ – Leroy Chiao

‘I don’t think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day’s programming.’ – Roone Arledge

‘No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.’ – William Tyndale

‘Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I’m going to get booed. I know it’s going to happen. And you’re responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I’ve never been more hurt in my entire life.’ – Shannen Doherty

‘It’s more than a job. It’s very personal, so when you’re hurt, you’re really hurt inside.’ – Charlotte Gainsbourg

‘I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.’ – Freddy Fender

‘I don’t want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.’ – Michael Zaslow

‘Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he’s skillful not to hurt anybody. He’s skillful.’ – Richard Gere

‘I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.’ – Willie Mays

‘For example I don’t work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They’re different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don’t impose that on the actors.’ – David Cronenberg

‘Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.’ – Irwin Shaw

‘I think I’ve become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.’ – Claudio Reyna

‘I’m not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.’ – Courtney Love

‘Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it.’ – Joe Paterno

‘To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.’ – Max Lerner

‘Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.’ – Holly Near

‘If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.’ – Tillie Olsen

‘Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.’ – Vic Snyder

‘When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.’ – Judith Wright

‘You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘You mean guys don’t get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.’ – Bud Selig

‘When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.’ – Rahm Emanuel

‘The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.’ – Dennis C. Blair

‘I would have to say that looked like it hurt.’ – Adam Savage

‘American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.’ – Jackie Chan

‘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.’ – Haley Barbour

‘Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.’ – Van Jones

‘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.’ – Ann Coulter

‘If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we’re going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can’t afford it and families can’t afford it. We’re going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We’re going to find the Medicare doughnut hole – a gap in coverage that’s going to hurt a lot of seniors.’ – Dick Durbin

‘The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.’ – John Pistole

‘I’ve had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don’t want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.’ – Justin Bieber

‘The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we’re prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.’ – Timothy Geithner

‘In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.’ – Jeremy Renner

‘Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.’ – Eric Cantor

‘I can’t remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.’ – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

‘I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it’s your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.’ – Mark Sanchez

‘A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.’ – Kristin Chenoweth

‘You have two pages, that’s the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, ‘Oh, that’s the one that has the highest rate, that’s the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.” – Elizabeth Warren

‘I don’t want reporters to talk to me because I’m a revolutionary and if it got out that I’m basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘I’ve never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I’m not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.’ – Foxy Brown

‘Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What’s the point of going on? If I can’t do what I want to do, then what’s the point?’ – Brian Bosworth

‘I should hurt a lot more people than I do. I’d like to hurt someone on every play.’ – Brian Bosworth

‘I’d like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don’t think I’m out there hurting enough people.’ – Brian Bosworth

‘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 Ray

‘Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That’s when it’s so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.’ – Barry McGuigan

‘Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you’re better than you really are.’ – David Cone

‘Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.’ – Gunter Grass

‘I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that’s where I discovered acting.’ – John Corbett

‘If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.’ – Chris Evans

‘One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, ‘It’s time to stop. I can’t do it anymore. It’s not good. It hurts too much.” – Jordan Knight

‘Everyone gets hurt, but I’ve probably had the most injuries.’ – Johnny Knoxville

‘It’s unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It’s common sense, really.’ – Johnny Knoxville

‘There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person’s feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It’s better to be honest.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest. I don’t do anything to hurt anybody.’ – Leighton Meester

‘I punch a lot of guys on set. It’s much easier than in real life as your hands don’t hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.’ – Timothy Olyphant

‘Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol’ freakin’ leopard shark… I’m looking at him and I’m thinking, ‘OK, he won’t hurt me.” – Timothy Olyphant

‘The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people’s lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.’ – Rick Santorum

‘Before the decathlon I’m constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it’s going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that’s like anything – you want to give your best.’ – Bryan Clay

‘I love my girlfriend to bits. I’d never do anything to hurt her.’ – Charlie Simpson

‘Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.’ – Matt Emmons

‘Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores – do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.’ – Reed Hastings

‘I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.’ – Lisa See

‘I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That’s not the type of player I am.’ – Carl Hagelin

‘You want to play in every game, and you especially don’t want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don’t want to hurt anyone on the other team.’ – Carl Hagelin

‘I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.’ – M. F. Husain

‘There was one day when I just didn’t feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn’t. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.’ – Jordana Brewster

‘I don’t think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.’ – Fred Durst

‘I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents’ bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.’ – Cathy Rigby

‘I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents’ bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.’ – Cathy Rigby

‘The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can’t really kill someone, and you don’t want to really hurt them.’ – Annabella Sciorra

‘If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn’t hurt the original.’ – Sam Raimi

‘I’m not executing my pitches. I’m not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I’m getting hurt. That’s not the way I pitch.’ – Johan Santana

‘It’s a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of ‘Chopped.’ You’d think I’d get sick of it, but it’s a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don’t like about it is it’s a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.’ – Ted Allen

‘Children, if they haven’t been introduced to foods by the time they’re 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don’t really get out of that until they’re 6 or 7 – it’s a safety mechanism, and you’re not going to win.’ – Tyler Florence

‘I’m not thick-skinned at all, and of course I’m hurt by people attacking me as a person.’ – Diane Abbott

‘When you tax capital gains income, you don’t help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.’ – Rob Portman

‘It’s better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘It’s hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it’s definitely impacted the league.’ – Michael Jordan

‘And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America’s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.’ – Mitt Romney

‘My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that’s what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I’m going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that’ll probably be it for a while.’ – Fred Couples

‘The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can’t worry about that.’ – Bill Parcells

‘If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.’ – George Michael

‘My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.’ – Stacy Keach

‘I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I’m not a fighter.’ – Herman Cain

‘My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.’ – Tyra Banks

‘When people say negative things or speculate, you can’t help but feel hurt.’ – Ann Curry

‘A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn’t hurt anybody.’ – Louis C. K.

‘If you don’t hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you’ll be fine in the South.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘I think what’s going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona – and I think it’s going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.’ – Bill Richardson

‘A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘In NFL preseason, the coaches don’t use 10% of the playbook. They don’t game plan. They do nothing. They don’t give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I’ve been married four times and caused a great deal of hurt and upset around me.’ – Roger Moore

‘Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn’t win.’ – William Shatner

‘No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.’ – Pranab Mukherjee

‘I think I’ve learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart – and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn’t hurt either.’ – Dorothea Benton Frank

‘It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you’ve been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.’ – Salma Hayek

‘Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you’re a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you’re at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it’s your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Of course I get hurt.’ – Jackie Chan

‘The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.’ – Lindsey Graham

‘If you love animals, obviously it doesn’t make sense to hurt them.’ – Morrissey

‘I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife’s family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.’ – Tiger Woods

‘I’m loyal to a fault – even though I’ve been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it’s also survival of the fittest out there.’ – Hulk Hogan

‘Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts – and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance – and that’s tough when interest rates are insanely high – there’s a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.’ – Suze Orman

‘Late payments also hurt your FICO score. And never, ever take out a cash advance on your credit card.’ – Suze Orman

‘I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘My investments have been hurt.’ – Scott Adams

‘As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.’ – Annie Lennox

‘Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘Oh, there’s nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.’ – George Foreman

‘I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they’re overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.’ – Tori Amos

‘I don’t think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.’ – Farrah Fawcett

‘The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.’ – Dana Carvey

‘I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn’t hurt anyone.’ – Joe Namath

‘The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.’ – Karl Rove

‘You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I’m not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.’ – Gloria Allred

‘On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.’ – Laura Schlessinger

‘I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.’ – Sylvia Browne

‘But hey, controversy – well, it hasn’t hurt me in 50 years.’ – Joe Arpaio

‘Everything that people lob at you who don’t know you, it all hurts. When you’re doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn’t hurt anyone – I mean, it’s a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.’ – Liz Phair

‘I’ve been hurt quite a few times.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don’t panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That’s the whole art game in boxing.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.’ – Evo Morales

‘My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn’t hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do ‘The Brady Bunch’ because I’d have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.’ – Susan Olsen

‘I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that’s doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘Arsene Wenger’s idea is not only to play good football. It’s to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.’ – Dennis Bergkamp

‘I’d never hurt another person.’ – Adam Carolla

‘Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes – maybe even get a little hurt – and learn from them.’ – Brooke Burke

‘After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.’ – Nancy Grace

‘I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money – they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.’ – Yuri Milner

‘I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger – they slip far more often.’ – Gail Simmons

‘I am not a violent person. I actually don’t like to hurt people.’ – Gina Carano

‘Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.’ – Jan Karon

‘People will still love and hurt and yearn.’ – Janet McTeer

‘I think children in general have a very hard time – at least I did – expressing any pain because I didn’t want to hurt the people that I loved.’ – Aleksa Palladino

‘I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.’ – Giancarlo Esposito

‘I’m more liable to hurt myself than someone else.’ – Michael K. Williams

‘I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that’s never my intention.’ – Tim Gunn

‘Words are really powerful. I don’t believe that axiom at all – words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I’ll take sticks and stones.’ – Mary-Louise Parker

‘There’s been times when I’ve had heartbreaking moments and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe you said that,’ or ‘I can’t believe you did that’. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it’ll always hurt, but I’ve never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.’ – Shailene Woodley

‘We rarely grow when we’re happy, we grow when we hurt.’ – Maggie Q

‘I don’t know how people box for a living. I don’t know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.’ – Maggie Q

‘Even if you know that what you’ll say will hurt a woman’s feelings, I’ve learned that it’s better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.’ – Stephen Moyer

‘The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.’ – Ray LaMontagne

‘When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn’t rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it’s dangerous.’ – Natalie Goldberg

‘I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.’ – Bill Nighy

‘Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn’t mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.’ – LeAnn Rimes

‘I don’t earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.’ – LeAnn Rimes

‘Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.’ – Dianna Agron

‘I really believe I’ve been a good person. Not perfect – forget about perfect – but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants – and a few other things as well – but I’ve never hurt anybody.’ – Kiri Te Kanawa

‘Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.’ – Billy Gibbons

‘I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘People ask me about ‘The Hurt Locker’ a lot, and it’s an incredible piece of filmmaking – as are ‘Band of Brothers’ and ‘Platoon’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Apocalypse Now.’ But they’re not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood’s idea of war.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘It’s not just the physical aspect of boxing, it’s the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you’ll ever do is to box – to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.’ – Cara Castronuova

‘I don’t really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won’t hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.’ – Julie Burchill

‘At the end of the day it’s going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I’ve learned to take a step back and ask myself if it’s really going to affect me, if this person who I’m never going to know or meet doesn’t like me – and it doesn’t.’ – Lauren Conrad

‘Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don’t. It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn’t like always being in pain, so they had to go!’ – Heather Morris

‘Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.’ – Bear Grylls

‘I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you’re going to get hurt then you shouldn’t be there in the first place. That’s the way I look at relationships.’ – Chris Noth

‘Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.’ – Andrew Weil

‘Don’t misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.’ – Carl Paladino

‘In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.’ – Juan Williams

‘We have a song like ‘Ready to Love Again’ that is really, really special to me. It’s the one that I relate to the most. It’s very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it.’ – Hillary Scott

‘I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can’t hurt a bug.’ – Nonito Donaire

‘I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I’ve done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn’t realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.’ – Oona Chaplin

‘I don’t want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.’ – Eliza Coupe

‘Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn’t. There are economic downturns. They’re painful, they’re harmful, and they hurt families.’ – Jeb Hensarling

‘I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade – relentlessly, mercilessly – by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘At the end of the day, I’m not a bad person; I don’t hurt anyone.’ – Tamara Ecclestone

‘Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it’s going to hurt their feelings. They’re actually looking for you to be the pack leader.’ – Cesar Millan

‘There’s this kind of war on running – people keep telling you you’ll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a special running store before you try it. There’s this totally misconceived notion that it’s hard to do, and it’s not.’ – Christopher McDougall

‘Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It’s not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.’ – Garth Stein

”Star Trek’ is the McDonald’s of science fiction; it’s fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don’t really have to get involved. It’s all plastic.’ – David Gerrold

‘I’ve turned arrogance into an artform, where it’s so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I’ve never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.’ – John Lydon

‘Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.’ – Jonathan Ames

‘The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.’ – Tony Judt

”Newsies’ is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for ‘King of New York,’ the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.’ – Kara Lindsay

‘Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It’s uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.’ – Jenny Lawson

‘The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as ‘bodies’ to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as ‘bodies’ to be forced into certain economic and social molds.’ – Michael Gurian

‘The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That’s the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘I picked Dad’s guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.’ – Dustin Lynch

‘Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I’ve texted so much, so I definitely text too much.’ – Miranda Cosgrove

‘I’ve become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It’s just too terrible. I’ve been to wars and I’ve seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it’s nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.’ – Taki Theodoracopulos

‘I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that’s the first really big achievement that you can have. It’s the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it’s unreal.’ – Mark Zupan

‘I’m not scared of getting hurt. I’m not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what’s the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?’ – Mark Zupan

‘Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected – whether it’s movies or people or relationships. I’m always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.’ – Brian Grazer

‘I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.’ – Katori Hall

‘Singing for stage, if you don’t hear yourself, that’s when you push, and that’s when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.’ – Aaron Tveit

‘Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.’ – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

‘My whole life I’ve hated to lose, no doubt about it. I’ve been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That’s who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you’re perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.’ – Peter M. Brant

‘Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn’t hurt each other.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don’t think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don’t think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick ’em. I might not’ve hurt ’em, though, they might’ve just been afraid of me.’ – Joe Greene

‘Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I’m past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it’s gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.’ – Derrick Rose

‘The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It’s laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.’ – Tamara Mellon

‘When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn’t do anything about it.’ – Dan O’Brien

‘I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn’t hurt, either.’ – Carmen Agra Deedy

‘Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.’ – Henry Paulson

‘My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.’ – Jason Kidd

‘Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there’s karma to love in regards to what you’ve done to other people.’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘I’d love to be animated. I’ve always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.’ – Carrot Top

‘I am a complete mother’s boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.’ – Julian Lennon

‘I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.’ – Mickey Rourke

‘No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn’t get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.’ – Akshay Kumar

‘I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘For me, the reason I keep working out and want to get bigger and focus on staying fit is because when you do fall it’s easier to tighten up and not get hurt. I also wrestle, and that helps me a lot with taking a fall. A lot of what I do at the end of they day are things that will help me to not get hurt.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘I like skateboarding. I’m here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It’s just all part of the process.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they’re a good sport.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend’s mom’s car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else’s car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn’t get behind the wheel again until I had my driver’s license.’ – Amanda Righetti

‘The funny thing is, I’ve never really hurt myself in an action movie. I’ve done ‘Wanted,’ ‘X-Men,’ ‘Welcome To The Punch,’ even ‘Trance’ to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I’ve never really hurt myself at all – not even like a sprained ankle.’ – James McAvoy

‘My fans are probably largely female; it wasn’t until ‘How to Make it in America’ that guys started coming up to me: ‘You’re Bryan Greenberg.’ ‘Yeah… Don’t hurt me. What do you want?’ ‘Love the show.” – Bryan Greenberg

‘Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn’t feel that way, maybe because I’m older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn’t knock me down.’ – Jill Scott

‘Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it’s about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.’ – Krista Tippett

‘I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about – it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.’ – Anne-Marie Duff

‘I’m just the biggest klutz. That’s the problem. I don’t get hurt doing cool things.’ – Derek Hough

‘There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn’t really matter anymore. I don’t have any dignity left to lose. An audience can’t hurt you anymore when you’ve been completely dismantled.’ – John Oliver

‘I’ve done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it’s better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don’t want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.’ – Holt McCallany

‘For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven’t hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can’t make me feel bad about myself if I don’t allow it.’ – Lucy Davis

‘I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates’ brothers. I was a great tumbler, so when he showed up at practice one day, I tried to impress him, but I ended up landing on my face! When I got off the ground, I had rug burn on my nose. I was in tears because it hurt so bad!’ – Josie Loren

‘Actors think they’re far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.’ – Julia Sawalha

‘No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don’t want to feel that feeling again.’ – Hope Solo

‘Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother’s 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he’d never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘I’m at a point where I’m ready to settle down. Every girl I meet, though, something wrong happens, and I end up getting hurt.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘I always find the worst lies are told in relationships – I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone’s feelings from being hurt.’ – Kirsten Prout

”Hatfields & McCoys’ is a very profound statement in what happens when you’re unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.’ – Noel Fisher

‘It used to hurt me that people thought I didn’t have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.’ – Gautam Gambhir

‘I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn’t specific to a religion. I think it’s a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.’ – Jessie J

‘There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.’ – Pritam Chakraborty

‘When my job isn’t performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I’m hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I’m a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.’ – John Cena

‘With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there’s always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.’ – Maiara Walsh

‘When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.’ – Michelle Ryan

‘I am pro-expression. I am pro – you know, as long as you don’t hurt anyone.’ – Tommy Wiseau

‘Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you’ll never get up.’ – Micky Ward

‘I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn’t want any teacher to put me down any more.’ – Herschel Walker

‘My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn’t hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn’t warm up good enough, couldn’t throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.’ – Phil Niekro

‘I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn’t hurt his arm. That’s how I grew up learning.’ – Phil Niekro

‘I’m not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.’ – Tony Campolo

‘Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn’t suit my taste, so I thought, ‘OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.’ And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.’ – Josh Hartnett

‘I’ve got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I’ve thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, ‘What are the things I can do that won’t hurt me and will help me?’ The first answer is work.’ – Marianne Faithfull

‘I like to bring people together so we don’t waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There’s nothing to say you don’t make a profit by doing good.’ – Teresa Heinz

‘When you’re threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don’t pretend that you didn’t get hurt – hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.’ – Teresa Heinz

‘Some of the best advice I’ve gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I’ve really learned a lot from both of them.’ – Chandler Canterbury

‘My humor isn’t meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it’s to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.’ – Charlyne Yi

‘Whenever you’re fighting with weapons, there’s a level of reality because people don’t understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points – that if the timing’s wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There’s nothing like working with an actor who doesn’t know what they’re doing, because you’re always in fear of losing an eye.’ – Will Yun Lee

‘The reason we had an all-black outfield in ’51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, ‘You’re the first to do this. You’re the first to do that.’ Don’t dwell on race all the time.’ – Monte Irvin

‘I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.’ – Eric Clapton

‘Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don’t want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don’t want to hurt people.’ – Erica Jong

‘I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad – when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family’s been hurt, somebody’s going to die. I’m sure a therapist would go, ‘That’s not a good way to live,’ but every time it’s not that bad thing, I’m so thankful and appreciative.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘I did not like ‘The Hurt Locker.’ It’s a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, ‘Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?” – Michael Moore

‘Anthony Mackie in ‘The Hurt Locker’ is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.’ – Denis Leary

‘In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there’s a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don’t have feelings; they don’t get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘I’ve done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I’m aiming it for older people – people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It’s easy, you can’t get hurt, it’s very doable, and I’ve done it in ten-minute segments.’ – Jane Fonda

‘I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.’ – Kid Rock

‘The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you’re afraid to say anything because they’ll hurt you.’ – Penn Jillette

‘The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.’ – Penn Jillette

‘We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don’t want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don’t want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.’ – Bobby Orr

‘When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God’s mind nor shut God’s mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘It’s easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.’ – Regina Brett

‘If you have a pair of shoes that hurt, don’t wear them. The ugliest thing that I think I’ve seen is a woman walk like her feet hurt. It’s awful, so make sure your shoes fit.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up – because they have great values and a great sense of self.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn’t go out with.’ – Garry Shandling

‘It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have taught and testified lies deep in our hearts.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘I didn’t think anyone was going to buy ‘Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?’ It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.’ – Boy George

‘Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn’t find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.’ – Jill Scott

‘I don’t want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I’m going to do everything I can to bring many people to Christ. If he can use me in that regard through ‘Family Talk,’ that will be my greatest legacy.’ – James Dobson

‘Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won’t hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.’ – Rachel Nichols

‘As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.’ – Sarah Shahi

‘When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn’t go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut… that pain you feel when you know it’s time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future… and you don’t do it.’ – Abigail Washburn

‘I assume the closest members of my family don’t actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.’ – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

‘After I hurt the knee, football wasn’t nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.’ – Joe Namath

‘No one plans to get sick or hurt – I certainly didn’t – but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.’ – Magic Johnson

‘I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.’ – China Machado

‘The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘You’d think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I’ve had broken bones that didn’t hurt as bad.’ – Evel Knievel

‘My guiltiest pleasure in life is ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos.’ I watch them all – old, new – I don’t care. Despite how bad the writing is on the show. The people getting hit and hurt, that’s hilarious.’ – Russell Peters

‘I have a funny relationship with religion. I’m a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody. But I’m not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them – and they might hurt us – a lot less.’ – Alice Dreger

‘I was 16 and got my boyfriend’s name tattooed on me. Don’t do it. ‘Cause it hurts. The moment you do it, the next month, the next year, you’ll be broken up – trust me – and cover-ups hurt. You can show your love in other ways. Ink is not it. Write it on a piece of paper and mail it to him.’ – Lauren London

‘We keep secrets from people that we love because we’re afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we’re afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we’re afraid of what is, and what can’t be.’ – Lauren London

‘I think when you love a child, it’s a different kind of love. You think, ‘I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn’t possibly love any more, I’m going to blow up.’ And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can’t love any more.’ – Sharon Stone

‘I wouldn’t change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.’ – Oleg Cassini

‘I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‘Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,’ but I’m like, ‘I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,’ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.’ – Virat Kohli

‘I decided to host my show ‘Kiss and Cry’ hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure skating. When I see these people enjoying themselves, it’s a great joy to me. Although some of them get hurt once in a while, they enjoy it a lot, and I hope the show makes the viewers want to give it a try.’ – Kim Yuna

‘I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?’ – Nick Saban

‘I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.’ – Nick Saban

‘I raised two sons, and I know that even though they’re bigger and stronger than I am, they’re still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how ‘heroic’ he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘I’m pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.’ – Maxwell

‘As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I’d score 40 points. I’d come home and say, ‘Look dad, I scored 40.’ He’d never have a smile on his face. He’d be like, ‘I saw that move you did. What if you’d hurt your knee?” – Shaquille O’Neal

‘I’ve definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It’s that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings.’ – Mickey Sumner

‘The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.’ – Hooman Majd

‘There’s only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that’s ‘Hurt’ by Johnny Cash. That’s exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.’ – Anton Corbijn

‘I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.’ – Lapo Elkann

‘You don’t have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.’ – George Foreman

‘People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.’ – George Foreman

‘You’ve got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you’ll just naturally make money doing it.’ – George Foreman

‘If you write memoir, it can’t be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.’ – Dani Shapiro

‘A little showbiz never hurt anyone.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.’ – Daniel Breaker

‘I’m hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people’s feelings, but then I’ll blow it 10 minutes later.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘I don’t think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘There’s nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can’t feel anymore.’ – John Bradshaw

‘My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.’ – Rachel Joyce

‘For city dwellers like me who don’t get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out – all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer’s cinematic escapes is ‘La Collectionneuse.” – Jake Paltrow

‘That’s part of what always fascinated me about the Flash. Yes, he had superpowers, but he wasn’t superhuman. He was vulnerable. He could be hurt or killed. He’s not getting in a jet. He actually is the jet. So he had this gift, but with it came this risk. And I think that’s what makes the character relatable.’ – Greg Berlanti

‘We did ‘Jack & Bobby’ in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.’ – Greg Berlanti

‘I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don’t find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.’ – Martin Campbell

‘People don’t do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there’s jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.’ – Frederica Mathewes-Green

‘It doesn’t hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I’ve actually made comedy out of it. I’ve made light of that.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees – at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you’re willing to hurt to catch one more runner – you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.’ – Don Kardong

‘If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It’s going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you’ll do it.’ – Tony McCoy

‘The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn’t say I don’t respect other people’s opinions, but my opinion is the most important.’ – Tony McCoy

‘I don’t think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.’ – Steve Krug

‘What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.’ – Trey Gowdy

‘I don’t try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.’ – Rajeev Shukla

‘No one would bring their horse into a studio, because they don’t want to bring their prized animals into an environment where they wouldn’t be comfortable or where they might panic and hurt themselves.’ – Jill Greenberg

‘I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I’m sure it’s opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I’ve been pretty effective once I’ve gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.’ – Tagg Romney

‘In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don’t have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.’ – Dominique Moceanu

‘I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions – we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.’ – Sania Mirza

‘Consumers deserve the right to know what’s in their food – and obviously, most people want that choice. It’s hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.’ – Michael Specter

‘I can understand the fact you don’t want the ball slipping out of a pitcher’s hand because someone can get hurt.’ – Joe Torre

‘When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.’ – Mario Andretti

‘By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that’s not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don’t sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that’s all fine.’ – Indra Nooyi

‘Please don’t throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.’ – Liam Payne

‘It’s still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can’t help a show, they can hurt it.’ – Mitch Leigh

‘There’s a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.’ – Justin Tuck

‘I’m a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I’m right there to protect them. I’m a big, strong guy who knows what he’s doing. I’ve stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.’ – Paul Sorvino

‘If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you’re in the public eye, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt when people say things.’ – Louise Nurding

‘When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it’s not easy. You know, if you’re working out your muscles, if you’re doing whatever, it’s gonna hurt a little bit.’ – Don Lemon

‘Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.’ – Paul Watson

‘Here’s the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody’s been hurt, where no property’s been damaged.’ – Paul Watson

‘I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I’m able to move around and don’t have knee problems, and my hip doesn’t hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.’ – Michael Strahan

‘I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don’t have to hurt anybody to be really funny.’ – Ross Mathews

‘Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions – I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you’re not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.’ – Laura Lang

‘Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I’ll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.’ – Shari Arison

‘I just don’t read reviews, because it can really hurt you.’ – Toni Tennille

‘At the end of a marathon, it’s going to hurt whether you’re speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.’ – Summer Sanders

‘With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we’ll talk about it. I’ll tell her that she’s a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.’ – Summer Sanders

‘As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news coverage – people will watch you if they see themselves in what you report. It doesn’t hurt if the people doing the reporting look like them, too.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘My mom didn’t let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn’t want me to get hurt.’ – Nick Ferguson

‘It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is ‘Buffalo ’66,’ which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It’s about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.’ – Jim Sturgess

‘I can’t say that I’ve ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.’ – Nicole Gale Anderson

‘Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on ‘The Price is Right.’ The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it’s really quite amazing. It’s a little scary: you can’t have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it’s great fun.’ – John Schneider

‘I’m giving away my family’s story. Who owns the family’s story? I don’t. But you could turn it around and ask, ‘Who is to deny me to write my family’s story?’ I have hurt people, but I don’t think in a dangerous way. But you can’t tell.’ – Karl Ove Knausgard

‘I’ve had problems with my eyes, and my legs hurt if I walk a great deal. That’s due to very bad circulation. It’s called claudication, and it’s painful. So I have to stop if I’m walking, and pretending I’m looking in the window, so that I can rest them a little bit and then start off again.’ – Mary Tyler Moore

‘You always think you’re one of those players who will be in one place the whole time, one of those guys they’ll never let leave because you play hurt, do what it takes. But it’s a different age. A lot of coaches, they like having younger guys.’ – Wes Welker

‘In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don’t just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.’ – Kate Reardon

‘If you talk to anyone who’s done a stair fall, there’s not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don’t hurt something really bad.’ – Lucas Till

‘Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I’ve some other reference for extreme experience that isn’t me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It’s a way of controlling the uncontrollable.’ – Elliot Cowan

‘I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, ‘Well, exercise and I just aren’t meant to be.” – Sophie Winkleman

‘I hurt my knee, and that messed up my running, and boy did that ever just have a cascade effect. I’ve gained about thirty pounds that my doctors have screamed at me about. I’ve got to get that off, and I know that.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you’ve ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.’ – Martha Beck

‘I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you’re performing, you tend to pull punches because you don’t want to hurt anyone.’ – Jason David Frank

‘This is not Tolstoy. I don’t want to know what critics and professors think of what I’m writing. It might hurt my feelings.’ – Lisa Kleypas

‘Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.’ – Inga Muscio

‘I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of – it was pushing up against the back of my heart – and because I have heart issues, they thought it was this whole big deal. So I spent a good three days in the hospital, two nights in the ICU.’ – Austin Carlile

‘Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn’t hurt my back, and it’s a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.’ – Erin Heatherton

‘I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that’s really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.’ – Erin Heatherton

‘I’ve never been punched in the face, so I didn’t know it would hurt so much!’ – Elena Roger

‘Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.’ – Alex Berenson

‘People get in fights because they don’t communicate, because you don’t want to hurt the other person.’ – Aaron Paul

‘Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love… if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.’ – Curtis Mayfield

‘I went into the ‘Idol’ audition with no expectations; that’s just the kind of person I am. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third – I started to realize, ‘Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.” – Crystal Bowersox

‘The don’t-ask-don’t-tell approach to plot and character that ‘The Hurt Locker’ relies on to set itself in motion doesn’t offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.’ – Jonathan Dee

‘No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don’t even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.’ – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

‘I used to hurt myself by training all the time.’ – Troy Dumais

‘China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.’ – Wesley Clark

‘I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn’t let me play football when I was little because she was scared I’d get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘My joints hurt. I’m slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.’ – Ted Danson

‘One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism – of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you – and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.’ – Isabella Rossellini

‘At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they’ve done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren’t full of emotion, we’d be automatons, and I don’t think people want us to be that.’ – David Blunkett

‘Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.’ – Wayne Newton

‘Football is a violent sport. Somebody’s going to get hurt. It’s the game. Just hopefully, you’re on the good side of it.’ – Ndamukong Suh

‘A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There’s a huge difference. There’s no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don’t have that mean streak in me. I don’t play angry. It’s not anger.’ – Ndamukong Suh

‘I’m 300 pounds. If I fall on anybody, it’s going to hurt.’ – Mario Williams

‘I still haven’t found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.’ – Adam DeVine

‘I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn’t take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.’ – Al Sharpton

‘Strength of 100 men? I’d probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, ‘You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.’ Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders’ locker room.’ – Nelly

‘I don’t know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.’ – Tony Fernandes

‘We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don’t. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.’ – John Ortberg

‘I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.’ – Lydia Davis

‘As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.’ – Brian O’Driscoll

‘I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it’s transient; it doesn’t stay forever.’ – Brian O’Driscoll