Hurtful Quotes
197 quotes by 174 authors
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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
— Paula Abdul
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
— Samuel Johnson
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be…
— Richard Sibbes
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
— Michel de Montaigne
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We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not;…
— Epictetus
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But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall…
— David Hume
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Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
— Heather Armstrong
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Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up.…
— Jennifer Lopez
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Everyone goes through their own journey. Sometimes things can get hurtful. But sometimes too much intrusion of privacy can get to you, but I know…
— Katrina Kaif
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I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was…
— Emily Gould
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It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny…
— Tyra Banks
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There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.
— Bree Despain
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On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of…
— John Stuart Mill
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Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put…
— Martin Luther
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Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies
— Lisa Vanderpump
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In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or…
— Paul Ekman
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We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
— Robert Pozen
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When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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