I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
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.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
~By Jane Fonda ~
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
~By Keith Sweat ~
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
~By Robert Pozen ~
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
~By Dick Armey ~
It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.
~By Jim Bakker ~
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.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
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.
~By Octavia Butler ~
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
~By Sheryl Swoopes ~
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.
~By Neil LaBute ~
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.
~By Maya Lin ~
My business is hurting people.
~By Sugar Ray Robinson ~
My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.
~By Bode Miller ~
Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
~By Armand Hammer ~
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
~By Joe Rogan ~
If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.
~By Sharon Osbourne ~
I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it, garbage in, garbage out.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~By George Washington ~
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.
~By David Soul ~
I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.
~By Scott Bakula ~
I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
~By John Hawkins ~
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
~By Edmund White ~
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
~By Zane Grey ~
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.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
~By Juan Williams ~
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.
~By Jack Bruce ~
I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.
~By Mark David Chapman ~
When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
~By Mike Ditka ~
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.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
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.
~By John Gray ~
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
~By Henry Rollins ~
Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
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.
~By Mary Crosby ~
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.
~By Harry Reid ~
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.
~By Robert Teeter ~
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
~By Gary Coleman ~
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.
~By Richard Donner ~
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
~By Satchel Paige ~
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.
~By Andy Rooney ~
It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.
~By Susan Smith ~
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.
~By Richard Gere ~
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
~By Rumi ~
I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
~By Adam Savage ~
When you win, nothing hurts.
~By Joe Namath ~
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.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
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.
~By Joe Rogan ~
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.
~By Robert Guillaume ~
Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
~By Pat Benatar ~
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.
~By Marie Osmond ~
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.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
~By Billie Holiday ~
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
~By Andre Agassi ~
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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.
~By Allan Sherman ~
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.
~By Ty Cobb ~
'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.
~By 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.
~By King Hussein I ~
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
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.
~By Patty Hearst ~
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.
~By Muddy Waters ~
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
~By Horace ~
Think until it hurts.
~By Roy Thomson ~
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.
~By Rob Zombie ~
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.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
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.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.
~By Chris Evert ~
Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.
~By Stan Mikita ~
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
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.
~By Roone Arledge ~
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
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.
~By Luke Wilson ~
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.
~By Nina Simone ~
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.
~By Lillian Smith ~
There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
~By Tracey Emin ~
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.
~By Ben Folds ~
The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.
~By Joe Baca ~
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
~By Charles M. Schulz ~
Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
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.
~By Larry Holmes ~
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.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.
~By Chris Christie ~
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.
~By Lauren Bush ~
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.
~By James Caan ~
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
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?
~By Loretta Young ~
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