Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Furst

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.

Alexander Lowen

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Richard Bernstein

What we're seeing today is a relief rally from last week. There is really nothing to hurt the market today. All the techs are rebounding well.

Alexander Pope

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

Alberta Hunter

The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.

Albert Pujols

If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Robert Wiley

We won't risk him. That's the most important thing,

Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

David Jeremiah

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Connie Britton

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

Colin Firth

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

Daniel Libeskind

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

David Morrison

We understand the risk from this object, and while it's small, it's not zero,