“My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].” ThinkingTryingKidsMotherHurtImagineMomToolsPassingPassingsBeing TherePassing AwayYour Mom Author:Michael B. Jordan
“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said no matter how much they attacked him and the Nation of Islam under his leadership, they only helped the Nation to grow. So, the more they attacked me and the more I withstood that onslaught, the more thousands of people came out to, at least, hear a man that was being so vilified in the media. When they recognized that they were not hurting but helping me, they decided they wouldn't say anything except to continue to discredit. So, there is a conscious effort not to publicize anything that the Nation is doing of value.” PeopleMenSaidMatterHelpingValuesNationsGrowsHurtEffortMediaConsciousDecidedIslamHonorableSay AnythingMuhammadElijahDiscreditElijah MuhammadNation Of IslamHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the DNC right before the Democrats started their convention.Good political timing if you`re trying to help [Donald] Trump and hurt the Democrats.” IfsTryingFirstsHelpingGovernmentPoliticalHurtPartySourceTrumpDemocraticDemocratConventionsPublishingTimingDocumentsStolenDemocratic PartyPublicationWikileaksHackedRussian GovernmentGood Political Author:Rachel Maddow
“One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.” PeopleWantYearsStillsRealProblemKidsLastsHurtAnimalFireOne ThingBehaviorEarsEducateAutismAlarmsReal ThingsSensoryAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“It's tough enough to have a relationship, and it hurts enough to have it not work.” EnoughHurtToughIt Hurts Author:Kenny Chesney
“We have to band together, but the thing in America is that people are terrified of losing their jobs... Maybe California needs to secede. The only thing that'll make any difference is the money... Tax dollars and losing that amount of money. It's one of the most economically powerful states, isn't it? That's where it hurts.” PeopleNeedsStatesTogetherJobsAmericaDifferencesHurtPowerfulAmountBandTaxesLosingDollarsCaliforniaTerrifiedIt HurtsTax Dollars Author:Cate Blanchett
“Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too afraid. I'll lie about how happy I am in this marriage, and I'll put up a front." But she's betraying everything that's in her heart. She's making choices that are harming her, and that's why she's hurting. Her intuition is trying to tell her that.” ThinkingWantTryingHeartLyingChoicesHurtNumbersFrontsCircumstancesIntuitionBetrayMaking Choices Author:Caroline Myss
“If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What's the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?” PeopleIfsDifferentDifferencesHurtBetray Author:Caroline Myss
“I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.” IfsUseHurtWeaponsStonesClaimsSticksWoundsSticks And Stones Author:Neil Gaiman
“Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.” FunnyFallHurtLaughingSkinsSlipsDiscomfortBananas Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.” ThinkingUseNamesHurtMediaPressesUnfair Author:Diana Ross
“There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!” IfsFallHurtMessagesFlexibleWaterfallsHidden Messages Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.” WayMayHandsKidsAbleCertainEasyHurtPiecesDoorsMaterialsWindowCleverGrassPotPerformersIt HurtsMediocreHurt MeWindows And Doors Author:George Carlin
“Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingOrderHurtProductsSucceedCompetitionCustomersBest WayLunacy Author:Guy Kawasaki
“I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.” ThinkingHurtChristianitySupportEvidenceMake SenseResurrectionScrutiny Author:Lee Strobel
“In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.” IfsKnowsWantLooksFeelingsTermHurtOne ThingShareHonestBeing HonestI've LearnedCherishIt HurtsKnow Yourself Author:Shirley MacLaine
“I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"” ThinkingKnowsBelieveKindImportantWantedTogetherGuyCertainHurtDealsCrazyImportant ThingsDistanceAffectionVariousLove Each OtherFranklinEleanorSo Sad Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.” PeopleWorldRealSometimesHardDreamRealityHurtSleepViolenceCrazyStreetsFunctionGood ThingsSeparationMake SenseAwakeFearfulTruthfulJoyfulReunion Author:Shirin Neshat
“I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've always wanted to be very likeable, and I think that's a horrible thing, particularly for women. You're always like, "Oh, I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I hope they like me!" And that's just so stupid.” ThinkingWantWritingPersonsFeelingsWantedHurtStupidHorribleLike MeRebellionHorrible ThingsLikeable Author:Tama Janowitz
“I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.” PeopleI CanHelpingPainHateHurtViolenceSeeingBloodI HateIntriguedPhysical PainGetting HurtHurting Others Author:Takeshi Kitano
“I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens unexpectedly and looks painful. That's how it is in real life, and that's how it should be expressed. I don't glamorize it, nor do I depict it without necessity or inevitability.” ThinkingWayShouldLooksRealShowsHappensHurtViolenceUniquePainfulReal LifeMy WayFilmmakerIt HurtsInevitability Author:Takeshi Kitano
“Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present - you'll avoid falling into certain pits.For instance, if you know that a person has just lost his wife or her husband or lover, it's unlikely that you will say something that will hurt that person's feelings if you're truly paying attention. You'll make a sweeter life for yourself and for those around you if you are present.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenPersonsHelpingFeelingsCertainFallLostHurtAttentionWifeLoversHusbandMen And WomenErrorsCommitInstancePay AttentionUnlikelyBeing ThankfulPits Author:Maya Angelou
“It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole way of thinking about my life. It showed me that things can disappear like the snap of your fingers. As a young guy you thought you were invincible and nothing could ever hurt you, and stuff like that, and living life to the fullest.” ThinkingWayWholeYoungGuyStuffHurtSituationChangedHonorFingersDisappearLive LifeVietnamMedalWay Of ThinkingSnapsInvincibleChanged My LifeLive Life To The FullestYoung GuysMedal Of Honor Author:Michael E. Thornton
“There are a lot of people on the lowest rung of Jacob's Ladder, and we must somehow reach down, give them a hand, and make them want to climb. A little really good music never hurt anyone. And when people are given good music they can grow spiritually and even discover they like it.” PeopleGivingHurtLowest Author:Dave Brubeck
“God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's good for you." That's kind of how I try to look at things. Isn't that true, when you look back at things? "Ooh, I'm glad I didn't get that!" You get more philosophical when you get older, with the more life experiences you have. But I don't have any bad feelings towards anybody that was ever involved in any of that stuff, because I don't think that people usually set out to hurt you. I think that hurt is all manufactured by yourself and your expectations.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindFeelingsUniverseHurtOne DayExpectationsPhilosophicalGladLife Experience Author:Louie Anderson
“Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that. And for people saying that, for the most part - it would kind of hurt my feelings when you haven't done anything. You just kind of have to keep being yourself and move forward with what you love.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentDoneFeelingsMovingFallHurtGrowing UpToughSocial MediaMoving ForwardBeing YourselfMakeupYour Face Author:McKayla Maroney
“Obviously, there are political operatives that are playing a role. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be denounced. All candidates should say, we want to have - be able to have nonviolent, peaceful speaking events. Do not hurt people, do not hit. Do not break the law, no one is encouraging violence. That's what should be stated very clearly. Denounce any violence that occurs. Be honest to say exactly also, what is behind this. They are trying to elicit and produce a specific response to try to discredit and to paint Donald Trump in a particular light. That is - that's what's happening.” PeopleTryingMeanPoliticalHurtBreakViolenceHonestResponsePaintPeacefulBeing HonestDiscredit Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history, and TV you only had to know 40 when I started. And I thought, "Well, that's going to be so much easier." But film stayed pretty much the same. And television has changed so many times that my head hurts. So I made the wrong call there.” FilmHurtChangedCriticism Author:David Bianculli
“I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.” PeopleThinkingCountryTodayCultureHouseEasyHurtScaredViolentBullyThings ChangePsychopathHumiliate Author:Eve Ensler
“When I was listening in on the phone call where Andre Leon Talley was saying that he was going to get my fat, black ass on the cover of a magazine. I think that - you know, Andre Leon Talley is fat and black. And it hurt my feelings. It hurt my feelings. But it also was a lesson in this is what they think, and this is what they will always think. And there's no way of being too talented or too pretty or too confident around it. People will still have their opinions.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsBlackHurtOpinionListeningAssIt Hurts Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“Oil is a special case. Saudi Arabia is trying to drive U.S. fracking rivals out of business, while also hurting Russia. This lowers gas prices for U.S. and Eurozone consumers, but not by enough to spur economic recovery.” TryingEnoughHurtEconomicSpecialRecoveryGasGas Prices Author:Michael Hudson
“I've learned through the years how to base my identity and sense of self-worth on myself and not others. I've learned the most critical tool of all: self-love. Now, if it doesn't work out with someone, sure, I'll be hurt. But I'll be bruised, not broken. And I may lose my balance, but I won't be wiped off my feet.” HurtIdentityBrokenBalanceWork OutSense Of Self Author:Amy Chan
“God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without taking the field trip themselves.” WritingHurtHeartacheCall Me Author:Dannah Gresh
“I truly believe that recovery requires some kind of stasis where you have to sit and internalize and lick your wounds and confront that darkness. I think that being hurt and recovering from that hurt is important in building character.” ThinkingBelieveKindImportantCharacterHurtDarknessBuildingWoundsRecoveryBeing Hurt Author:Justin Rutledge
“When I started tentatively dipping a toe into fat-positive internet spaces, I learned that reclaiming the term was the quickest and most powerful way to make it stop hurting. If you can say, "Yes, I am fat, and it's okay to be fat," then all of a sudden it doesn't hurt when someone says it to you. And it's also just a descriptor. It's like tall.” TermHurtPowerfulInternetOkayMost Powerful Author:Lindy West
“If you're making yourself vulnerable in your writing, then they know where to hurt you, which is extra fun. I had to develop coping mechanisms on the fly, and slowly it got better, to the point where now I barely notice. I'm like an old, gnarly turtle now. The interaction with the troll who impersonated my dad made me start to understand who these people are, and I figured out, in a really profound way, that happy people don't do this. It's hard to feel afraid of someone when you pity them.” PeopleWritingFunHurtDadProfoundMy DadPityVulnerableExtrasCopingHappy PeopleTroll Author:Lindy West
“People always ask, "How do you get in the mind of the teen reader?" I think all human beings have these common threads. We struggle with the same things. We desire love and attachment. We have to sort out how much we want to be attached and be independent, how we manage need and being needed and being hurt. These are things that begin when we're - how old? Then in those teen years we start to really feel them.” PeopleThinkingMindDesireHurtCommonStruggleIndependentManageBeing Hurt Author:Deb Caletti
“The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.” PeopleThinkingBookHurtTruth Is Author:Rebecca Stead
“On the policy front, I just believe that Barack Obama was misguided. That he somehow sees this country as being in need of a drastic overhaul. What he tried to do actually hurt the country rather than helped it and the best example is Obamacare. It's a good idea to insure people who can't or won't buy insurance but you can't punish the working class to make it happen, which he did. Now everybody's paying higher premiums and more deductibles that's coming out of working people's pockets and that's one of the reasons that his legacy has been refuted.” PeopleBelieveCountryReasonHurtPolicyBarackLegacyWorking ClassDrasticJust Believe Author:Bill O'Reilly
“My job is to watch the powerful. It's a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don't hurt the folks.” PeopleHurtSimplePowerful Author:Bill O'Reilly
“A lot of these things have hurt the average American. When they look at the banks and they say, "Well, the bank's talking its own game," I am telling you, what we've done in mortgage lending, our inability to have proper regulations around mortgages, has hurt average Americans. First-time buyers, immigrant buyers, prior defaults, self-employed, because they can't get a mortgage. Will it make a big difference to JPMorgan Chase? No, but you're hurting my fellow citizens. Let's go at it, and let's fix it.” DoneHurtMortgage Author:Jamie Dimon
“If you've ever been in a romantic relationship and you say or do something that hurts your partner and then your partner is upset about it, it doesn't actually matter whether what you did had the intention that your partner thought it did. What matters is that the emotions are real. You can't invalidate that.” RealHurtEmotionIntentionUpsetRomantic Relationship Author:Janaka Stucky
“As far as leftists are concerned, nobody should have to pay more than anybody else. Nobody should make more than anybody else. Everything is supposed to be the same. It's the only way it's fair. It's the only way feelings don't get hurt. So when circumstances like that exist, they call that anti-competitive. Anti-competitive means they can't afford it.” MeanFeelingsHurtCircumstancesConcerned Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Luke Cage is using his open hand instead of a closed fist. It's a little disrespectful but it's very effective. Some people call it a pimp slap, we call it smack-fu. He's doing you a favour by hitting you with an open hand. It hurts, it renders you unconscious but you live.” PeopleHurtUnconsciousIt HurtsSlapDisrespectfulPimp Author:Mike Colter
“I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.” TryingFunHurtTension Author:Terry Zwigoff
“I get very, very, very irritable with people who complain about getting old, because I know a lot of people who would gladly trade places with us. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm not saying it doesn't hurt your feelings, I'm not saying it's not painful - and physically as well as mentally and spiritually - and it's frightening at times. However, people have really lost perspective, and it's a really bizarre topic of conversation that it's become a cultural peg in our world that aging is a bad thing. It's not logical to me.” PeopleWorldFeelingsEasyHurtPerspectiveTradeAgingPainfulComplainingLogicalFrighteningBizarreGetting OldPeg Author:Laura Linney
“Separate out the creative act from the act of editing and execution. Make it a two-step process. First, let ideas flow and encourage EVERY idea to make it to the whiteboard. Don't criticize, judge, edit, budget, or worry. An idea on the wall can't hurt anyone, so let them rip without restriction. After any and all ideas have the opportunity to "come out to play", only then should you apply your analytical and logical side to the effort. Don't mix the creative process with the editing process or you'll kill your ideas before they even get a fighting chance.” FightingOpportunityHurtChanceEffortWorryCreativeJudgingWallLogicalCriticizeCreative ProcessRip Author:Josh Linkner
“Once you are sincere in your fast, you have a sensitivity to the hurt and pain of others who are poor, who are not eating well, who are in areas where there is drought and other calamities.” PainHurtPoorEatingSincereSensitivityDrought Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Only do it if you absolutely have to, because you are gonna eat rejection every single day. And it's not easy eating that rejection every single day because it hurts. You have to learn not to take it personally. And that is a very hard lesson to learn.” EasyHurtEatingRejectionIt Hurts Author:Louise Fletcher
“I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do. The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.” PeopleThinkingEarthEnjoyHurtProveWake UpBliss Author:Charlie Benante