Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Feehily

I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

Nicole Polizzi

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

Nicole Krauss

He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying his brother, and how after that no one had bothered either of them again. 'You have to stick up for yourself,' he told me. 'But it's bad to throw rocks,' I said. 'I know. You're smarter than me. You'll find something better than rocks.

Jon Rubin

Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in

Jon Cryer

There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

Johnny Ramone

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

Philip Zimbardo

Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.

Olivia Colman

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Eric Hoffer

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

Octavia Butler

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Ellen DeGeneres

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Emily Dickinson

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

Rihanna

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

Rihanna

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Lady Starlight

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.

Kenny Wormald

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Henry Adams

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Morgan Brittany

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Miles Franklin

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

Mila Kunis

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Jonny Gomes

It's always good to get the bully back one day.

Lance Armstrong

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.

Lisa Kleypas

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

James Howe

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Natalie Portman

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

Natalie Portman

Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

Taylor Swift

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

Sy Montgomery

It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

Tony Parsons

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.