Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salma Hayek

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Salma Hayek

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Laura Davies

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Jodi Picoult

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

Lewis Carroll

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Erin Sorenson

I would say more important than having these big conversations with children about sex abuse would be every single day tell the child how much you love them, whatever happens to them even if they thought they were in trouble that you'll never hate them, never get them in trouble because they came to you.

John Mica

Juvenile drug abuse is a serious problem in both Volusia and Flagler counties, ... These important federal resources will help provide our youth with alternatives to illegal drug use.

Chris Graveline

Has this abuse had an impact on our war in Iraq? Definitely.

Saint Ambrose

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

Joe Girardi

He's a little bit behind, but we've got to make sure that we don't rush him. He's in a little different boat than all the other pitchers here, but we said all along that we weren't going to rush our pitchers. We're not going to abuse him. We're going to evaluate him later down the road.

Diana Williams

He should be sentenced for as many years as possible for the mental abuse he inflicted on me and my friend, ... I'm sure there are others out there who would like to see him locked up.

John LaChance

His mind started racing. His memories of all the sexual abuse he had incurred over his entire life came flooding back over him. He believed that what he was doing was right, that he had been ordained to do this.

Ned Yost

I think that pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. These guys are making so much money nowadays that you're trying to protect your investment and you don't want to abuse anybody out there, especially if you've got a good arm.

Jay Stanley

I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subjective no matter what the training is about, that you will inevitably have abuse and racial profiling.

Elie Wiesel

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.