Best hurt & sticks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.”

Thinking Way Believe Can Do Hurt Powerful Stones Sticks Don't Believe Wounds Damage Axioms Really Powerful Sticks And Stones

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.”

Men Ends Humanity Hurt Liberty Enemy Regard Sticks Injustice Accomplish Profession Tyranny Secure Sincere Sincerity Cunning Endeavour Public Good

Book:Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Source: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.”

“I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind May Care Certain Hurt Hair Reader Amount Please Elements Dresses Safety Blue Sticks Surprise Noses Shock Pins Tease Safety Pins

Author:John Ashbery

“If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Hurt Creativity Creative Harder Sticks Prepared Disappointment Boring Be Creative

Author:Chuck Barris

“One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."”

Kids Parent Hurt Break Taught Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks And Stones

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.”

Light Night Hurt Cities Sticks Breasts Candle

Book:Sun-up, and Other Poems

Source: Sun-up, and Other Poems

“I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

“A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.”

Seems Names Hurt Forever Minutes Stones Sticks Name Calling

Book:Beanpole

Source: Beanpole

“They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.”

Hurt Answers Modern Building Sticks Hockey Organs Modern Life Rad Hockey Sticks

Author:Johnny Carson

“And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.”

Way Persons Said Hurt Sin Virtue Thousand Anger Sticks Pins

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.”

Left Leadership Hurt Break Produce Stones Sticks Bones Atmosphere Thrive Toxic Rhetoric Untrue Holistic Interconnected Lunacy Sticks And Stones

Author:Phillip Adams

“These are the things I learned: share everything, play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day. Take a nap every afternoon, and, when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.”

People Thinking World Play Hands Together Found Hurt Watches Share Cold Draws Fairs Clean Sticks Paint Sorry Warm Mess Afternoon Milk Balanced Traffic Cookies Naps Holding Hands Balanced Life

Author:Robert Fulghum

“When I get hurt in the market, I get the hell out. It doesn't matter at all where the market is trading. I just get out, because I believe that once you're hurt in the market, your decisions are going to be far less objective than they are when you're doing well If you stick around when the market is severely against you, sooner or later they are going to carry you out.”

Ifs Believe Wells Matter I Believe Hurt Decision Hell Sticks Objectives Sooner Or Later Trading

Author:Randy McKay

“When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.”

Trying Humans Earth Sex Hurt Issues Failing Who You Are Sticks Clever Human Life Confused Discovering Being Hurt Discovering Who You Are

Author:Barbara Ess

“I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.”

Years Matter Girl Left Hurt Mistake Groups Projects Determination No Matter What Sticks Shoulders Life Changing Grades Hurt Me Chins Bullied Seventh Grade

Author:Megyn Kelly

“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.”

Ifs Use Hurt Weapons Stones Claims Sticks Wounds Sticks And Stones

Author:Neil Gaiman

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