Best hurt & facts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.”

Facts Hurt Trouble

Author:Edmund Vance Cooke

“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“[On acupuncture:] The needles are small and won't hurt at all. In fact, they'll feel good. Ha, ha! Just kidding. They feel like needles. Because they are.”

Feels Facts Hurt Health Feel Good Needles Just Kids Acupuncture

Book:Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

“It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.”

People Facts Hurt Attitude

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.”

Want I Can Facts Hands Hurt Balls Pitcher Slipping

Author:Joe Torre

“The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.”

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Author:Craig Kilborn

“How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.”

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Author:John Updike

“There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.”

Looks Two Facts Helping Hurt Abuse Two Things Flattery

Author:Jim Tressel

“Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.”

Mind Facts Suffering Passion Hurt Pleasure Secret Watches Clear Sadness Sad Enormous Arise Transformed Escaping

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.”

Writing Facts Hurt Powerful Middle Ego Letters Amazed Very Powerful Being Afraid Superego

Author:Etgar Keret

“As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.”

People Facts Jobs Actors Hurt Judging Performers Judge Me

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.”

Matter Facts Running Hurt Behinds Leaving Clock Sand Depressing Abyss Facts Of Life Hourglass

Book:And We All Fall Down

Source: And We All Fall Down

“Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.”

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Author:Michael Arrington

“I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.”

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Author:Daniel Tosh

“One thing my mom didn't want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn't have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn't really hurt me.”

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Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Iraq broke our back in terms of counterterrorism. There's no doubt about it. The first thing, though, that hurt us was the fact that the U.S. military was absolutely unprepared to do anything on 9/11 - or 9/12 or 9/13. And by the time we actually attacked Afghanistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban had dispersed.”

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Author:Michael Scheuer

“Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.”

Has Beens Two Facts Together Song Girl Hurt Written Seeing Periods Guilt Bunch Hurt Me Ballads

Author:George Michael

“As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us, or, all of us can't do well. That's what hurts rap the most, the fact that none of us are fighting to protect the door of those who run our industry. It's enough money for all of us.”

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Author:David Banner

“Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has also raised the real cost to middle-income families of achieving many basic goals. The process begins with the completely unremarkable fact that top earners have been spending at a substantially higher rate than before. They've been building bigger mansions, staging more elaborate weddings and coming-of-age parties for their kids, buying more and better of everything.”

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