Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today, after 30 long years, the people of Washington state -- through their legislature -- stood up to the threats, bullying and fear-mongering of the forces of political and religious extremism and said no to discrimination.

I don't know what he hopes to accomplish. It's just a bullying process, and I just refuse to be bullied.

Rebecca West

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Ryan Lewis

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.

Richard Louv

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

Tyra Banks

In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.

Rocky Marciano

Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.

I'm very surprised - exercising our voting rights is our right. How can that be a bullying tactic?

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.

Henry Adams

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This nation is not a nation that would succumb to the impositions and bullying of the U.S. or any other,

Rachel Simmons

Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.

Rachel Simmons

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

Mike Pence

The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States, to the point where all the United States of America, the greatest nation on Earth, just withdraws from talks about a ceasefire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begin - look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

Kirk Cameron

We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.

Kirk Cameron

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

Katherine Jenkins

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

Julian Clary

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

Keith Richards

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

Kristen Bell

I was so paranoid that my friends wouldn't like me. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were very real. You couldn't just push some nameless face in the hallway because everybody knew each other's families, so there wasn't the obligatory psychotic jackass that tortured everybody.

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.