Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

AnnaSophia Robb

There's no need to bully; be kind to unwind!

Alexander McCall Smith

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

Alexa Chung

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

E. M. Forster

The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.

Dalai Lama

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Desmond Tutu

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Anderson Cooper

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.

Amber Riley

I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

Andre Dubus

As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

Andrew Vachss

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Angelina Jolie

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

e. e. cummings

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

Anna Maria Chavez

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Anna Maria Chavez

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Anna Julia Cooper

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

I would acknowledge it's difficult not having him here in Albany. Clearly in a perfect world he'd be here using the bully pulpit.

Cilla Black

Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."

Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

Claire McCaskill

So I think that this is wrong, and common sense tells us it?s wrong. And I?m worried that the president is going to bully this through and the impact that has.

Deng Xiaoping

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

Shawn Amos

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

The administration can bully the departments to do whatever they want with the departments' own money.

The council's role now is trying to mobilize their constituents to exert public pressure to rebuild the entire city. It's a bully pulpit role.

This is just getting a little old. Ford has made its position very clear. It is a position that is respectful and acknowledging the diversity of its customers and employees. It's made a very principled decision on this matter. For that we can be very happy and they should be very proud. People who want to continue to poke sticks in these kinds of things and bully people don't serve anybody. There's nothing helpful, positive, or rational about people who want to continue to create controversy and an issue over this whole Ford matter.

It's like growing up. You get slapped in the face by a bully for so long, that when you finally get your chance to be on top you want to spank him.

The governor has the bully pulpit. It would be good for her to even have some encouraging words for the Winchester workers and state publicly that she would welcome a new business partner to the state. March 31 is when the plant will close, but that doesn't mean that's the end of the story. We're still working hard to find a new operator.

The governor has a very large and loud bully pulpit to speak from and I hope the governor helps promote much of the enrollment in the next 18 days.

Danielle Steel

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

When you get slapped in the face by a bully for so long, it makes it even sweeter to come into their place and win like this.

David Lynch

Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded love, unbounded energy, and unbounded peace. And when students start expanding consciousness in those positive qualities, their relationships improve, their grades go up, their happiness goes up, the fighting and bullying stops, and things get very, very, very good.

Daniel Tosh

You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!

We are working with the school system to develop a suicide-prevention program for teens. We're hoping to implement it next year. The school system is concerned about bullying and suicide.