Hurt Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

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

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

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.

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

Only Americans can hurt America.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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.

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

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.

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.

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

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.

'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.'

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

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.

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.

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

'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

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

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.

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!

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.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

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

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.

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.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

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.

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

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

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.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.

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

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.

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

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

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

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

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.

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

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.

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.'