I remember politicians in Northern Ireland were sometimes called 'verbal incendiarists,' as they didn't actually do anything but they said certain things.… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so—crucial.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power… — Roger Pilon Copy Share Image
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses?… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It crosses the line when it becomes personal, something has to be done about social media abuse. — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is… — Nathan East Copy Share Image
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually,… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“Mia bottled all this up inside of her and just couldn’t manage it any longer. Mia would feel like it was entirely… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
“Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image