Hurt Quotes

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.
Evel Knievel

Why, Pants, Seat

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West

Done, Honesty, Trying

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper

Long, Dead, Nobody

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
William J. Clinton

Deep, Matter, Clearly

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel

Help, Everyone, Makes

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
Don Rickles

Fun, Here, Insult

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
William Shatner

Winning, Writing, Acceptance

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Simone Weil

Thought, Lose, Themselves

My investments have been hurt.
Scott Adams

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
Christina Aguilera

Music, Anger, Past

In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.
Rush Limbaugh

Nothing, Game, Give

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.
Chester Bennington

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan

Fight, Learn, Weakness

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.
George Michael

Life, Live, Someone

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
Bam Margera

Down, Try, Learn

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.
Willie Aames

Down, Jesus, Tell

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter

Means, Spirit, Baby

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?
Loretta Young

Judge, Long, Whatever

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
Terry Pratchett

Stupid, Betrayal, Fight

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.
Brigitte Bardot

Wanted, Anybody, Knowingly

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.
Tina Yothers

Life, Good, Help

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Jeanette Winterson

Love, Self, Place

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes

Truth, Unless, Ought

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott

Time, Yourself, Trying

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
Billie Holiday

Business, Nobody

There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
Vince Carter

Bad, Saying, Feelings

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
Tyra Banks

Bad, Guitar, Used

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
David Cone

Great, Yourself, End

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
LaToya Jackson

Pain, Die, Wanted

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner

Money, Experience, Society

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