292 Quotes on Hurt

• 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.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• 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.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• 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.

  Author: Judith Wright

• 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.

  Author: Fay Wray

• 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.

  Author: Fred Woodworth

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

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• 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.

  Author: Mike Weir

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• 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.

  Author: Simone Weil

• 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.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• 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.

  Author: David Viscott

• 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.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• 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.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.

  Author: William Tyndale

• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• 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.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• 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.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

  Author: Al Talal

• One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

  Author: Keith Sweat

• 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.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• 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.

  Author: Mink Stole

• The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• 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.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• 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.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• 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.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

  Author: Britney Spears

• 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.

  Author: David Soul

• 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!!

  Author: 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Susan Smith

• 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.

  Author: Bubba Smith

• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  Author: Lewis Smedes

• Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• 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.

  Author: Ricky Skaggs

• Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

  Author: Diogenes Sinope

• No man is hurt but by himself.

  Author: Diogenes Sinope

• Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• 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.

  Author: Nina Simone

• 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.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

  Author: George Shaw

• The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

  Author: Ahmet Sezner

• I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

  Author: Joan Severance

• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

  Author: Bud Selig

• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Author: Charles Schulz

• 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.

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• 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.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

  Author: Adam Savage

• My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

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

  Author: Rumi

• The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• 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.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

  Author: Isabella Rossellini

• 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 .

  Author: Diana Ross

• 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.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• 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.

  Author: Dave Ronk

• 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.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• 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.

  Author: Joe Rogan

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

  Author: Joe Rogan

• 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.

  Author: Bryan Robson

• 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.

  Author: Diego Rivera

• 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.

  Author: Denise Richards

• I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

  Author: Ann Richards

• 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.

  Author: Ving Rhames

• 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.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

  Author: Agnes Repplier

• 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.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• 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.

  Author: Dan Rather

• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Author: Daphne Rae

• Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

  Author: Sima Qian

• I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

  Author: Ernie Pyle

• Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

  Author: Billy Preston

• 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.

  Author: John Pistole

• 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.

  Author: Peace Pilgrim

• I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

  Author: Jimmy Piersall

• 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.

  Author: Eden Phillpotts

• 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.

  Author: Piper Perabo

• Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

  Author: Joe Paterno

• 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.

  Author: Rosa Parks

• Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

  Author: Gail Parent

• 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.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

  Author: Satchel Paige

• Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Author: Satchel Paige

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

  Author: Ovid

• When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

  Author: Jim Otto

• If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

  Author: Sharon Osbourne

• Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

  Author: Bill O'Reilly

• This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

  Author: Tillie Olsen

• I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• Love's an excuse to get hurt.

  Author: Conor Oberst

• We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

  Author: Louis Nizer

• 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.

  Author: Bob Ney

• To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

  Author: Olivia Newton-John

• Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

  Author: David Neeleman

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

  Author: Holly Near

• 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.

  Author: Bruce Nauman

• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  Author: Ogden Nash

• 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.

  Author: Chad Murray

• 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.

  Author: Daniel Moran

• 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.

  Author: Shemar Moore

• 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.

  Author: Mary Moore

• Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

  Author: Marilyn Monroe

• 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.

  Author: Dannii Minogue

• I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.

  Author: Liza Minnelli

• My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

  Author: Bode Miller

• 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.

  Author: Edna Millay

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

  Author: Stan Mikita

• 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.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• 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.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• 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.

  Author: Brian McKnight

• 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.

  Author: Reba McEntire

• The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.

  Author: Will McDonough

• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Author: Jim McDermott

• 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.

  Author: Scott McCallum

• 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.

  Author: Rachel McAdams

• I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

  Author: Paul Mazursky

• 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.

  Author: Willie Mays

• Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

  Author: Brian May

• 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.

  Author: Wink Martindale

• 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.

  Author: Sterling Marlin

• If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.

  Author: Catharine MacKinnon

• I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

  Author: Courtney Love

• Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

  Author: Lawrence Lovasik

• 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.

  Author: Lucy Liu

• 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.

  Author: Ted Lindsay

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• 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.

  Author: Maya Lin

• When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

  Author: Jerry Lewis

• 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.

  Author: Phil Lesh

• To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

  Author: Max Lerner

• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

  Author: Max Lerner

• I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

  Author: Sanaa Lathan

• And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

  Author: Judge Lane

• 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.

  Author: Bert Lahr

• 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.

  Author: Neil LaBute

• I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

  Author: Akshay Kumar

• I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

  Author: Alexis Korner

• 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.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

  Author: Johnny Knoxville

• I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

  Author: Evel Knievel

• 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.

  Author: Chuck Klosterman

• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• 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.

  Author: Al Kaline

• 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.

  Author: Ashley Judd

• 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.

  Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

• When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• 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.

  Author: Van Jones

• 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.

  Author: Quincy Jones

• 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.

  Author: Mordecai Johnson

• 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.

  Author: Ian John

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  Author: Victoria Jackson

• Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

  Author: Michael Jackson

• I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

  Author: LaToya Jackson

• '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.

  Author: Michael Irvin

• 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.

  Author: King Hussein I

• 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.

  Author: Alberta Hunter

• Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

  Author: William Hudson

• 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.

  Author: Evander Holyfield

• 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.

  Author: Larry Holmes

• I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

  Author: Billie Holiday

• If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

  Author: James Hillman

• 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.

  Author: Dana Hill

• 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.

  Author: Thierry Henry

• I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

  Author: Jimi Hendrix

• Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• 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.

  Author: Patty Hearst

• Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

  Author: John Hawkins

• 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.

  Author: Jupiter Hammon

• Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

  Author: Armand Hammer

• I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

  Author: Jessica Hahn

• 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.

  Author: Jessica Hahn

• 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.

  Author: Robert Guillaume

• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  Author: Zane Grey

• 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.

  Author: John Gray

• 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.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• 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.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

  Author: Robert Goulet

• He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

  Author: Herbert Gold

• I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

  Author: Kathie Gifford

• I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

  Author: David Gest

• 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.

  Author: Richard Gere

• 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.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  Author: Jose Gasset

• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

  Author: Ernest Gaines

• Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

  Author: Robert Fulghum

• Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

  Author: Dawn Fraser

• 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.

  Author: Terry Fox

• 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.

  Author: Jodie Foster

• My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

  Author: George Foreman

• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  Author: B. Forbes

• When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

  Author: Jane Fonda

• If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

  Author: Louise Fletcher

• 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.

  Author: Bobby Flay

• None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

  Author: Ric Flair

• 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.

  Author: Freddy Fender

• 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.

  Author: Oded Fehr

• I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

  Author: William Faulkner

• We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

  Author: Bobby Farrelly

• Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

  Author: Perry Farrell

• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• 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.

  Author: James Ellroy

• Only Americans can hurt America.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

  Author: Maria Edgeworth

• 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.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

  Author: Kirsten Dunst

• 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.

  Author: John Doolittle

• 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.

  Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

• 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.

  Author: Matt Dillon

• 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.

  Author: Denis Diderot

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Judy Davis

• It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

  Author: Keith David

• I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

  Author: Christopher Darden

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  Author: Salvador Dali

• 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.

  Author: Mary Crosby

• 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.

  Author: David Cronenberg

• 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.

  Author: George Crabbe

• The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

  Author: Peter Coyote

• 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.

  Author: Andrea Corr

• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

  Author: Calvin Coolidge

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  Author: Gary Coleman

• 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.

  Author: Ty Cobb

• 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.

  Author: William Clinton

• George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

  Author: Wesley Clark

• 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.

  Author: Septima Clark

• I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

  Author: Melanie Chisholm

• 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.

  Author: Leroy Chiao

• 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.

  Author: Gilbert Chesterton

• I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

  Author: Mark Chapman

• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

  Author: Edwin Chapin

• 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.

  Author: Richard Chamberlain

• '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.

  Author: Richard Chamberlain

• People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

  Author: Emanuel Celler

• 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.

  Author: Robert Casey

• 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.

  Author: Vince Carter

• 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.

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

  Author: Alexis Carrel

• 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.

  Author: James Caan

• 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.

  Author: Octavia Butler

• 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.

  Author: Lauren Bush

• When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

  Author: Carter Burwell

• 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.

  Author: Ellen Burstyn

• 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.

  Author: Bear Bryant

• Forgive those who have hurt you.

  Author: Les Brown

• 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.

  Author: Chester Brown

• 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.

  Author: Joyce Brothers

• Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

  Author: Terry Brooks

• 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.

  Author: Jeff Bridges

• 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.

  Author: Gerald Brenan

• 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.

  Author: Terry Bradshaw

• Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

  Author: Lizzie Borden

• 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.

  Author: Chastity Bono

• There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

  Author: Erma Bombeck

• God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

  Author: Selma Blair

• 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.

  Author: Justin Bieber

• 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.

  Author: Tom Berenger

• I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

  Author: Peter Benchley

• Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

  Author: Pat Benatar

• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  Author: Dan Bartlett

• I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

  Author: Drew Barrymore

• I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

  Author: Jim Bakker

• 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.

  Author: Erykah Badu

• 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.

  Author: Francis Bacon

• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

  Author: Francis Bacon

• 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.

  Author: Paul Auster

• 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.

  Author: John Astin

• Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

  Author: Lance Armstrong

• Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

  Author: Dick Armey

• 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.

  Author: Roone Arledge

• 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.

  Author: Louie Anderson

• 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.

  Author: Aldrich Ames

• It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.

  Author: David Allan

• 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.

  Author: Red Adair

• 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.

  Author: Willie Aames

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