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Hurt Quotes

"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait."

Diego Rivera, Mexican Artist

Hurt, Obvious, Woman

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"We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor."

Al Waleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabian Businessman

Hurt, Saudiarabian

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"Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you."

Frank Sinatra, American Musician

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"I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me."

Courtney Love, American Musician

Hurt, Songs, Writing

"We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

"Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it."

Joe Paterno, American Coach

Hurt, Poison, Publicity

"I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy."

Chad Michael Murray, American Actor

Hurt, Philosophy, Want

"Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it."

Jack Bruce, British Musician

Hurt, Now, Tribute, Want

"I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something."

Dick Butkus, American Athlete

"I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off."

Bubba Smith, American Athlete

"I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain."

LaToya Jackson, American Musician

Hurt, Now, Pain, Want

"If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer."

Sharon Osbourne, English Entertainer

Hurt, Lying, Night

"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."

Max Lerner, American Journalist

"George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between."

Wesley Clark, American Soldier

"No man is hurt but by himself."

Diogenes of Sinope, Greek Philosopher

"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."

Agnes Repplier, American Writer

"I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

Hurt, Nothing, Past, Regret

"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

"I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great."

Ernie Pyle, American Journalist

Hurt, Mind, Spirit

"I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt."

Kirsten Dunst, American Actress

"Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'"

Pat Benatar, American Musician

"I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something."

Dick Butkus, American Athlete

"Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened."

William Henry Hudson, British Author

Hurt, Now, Regret

"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."

Fred Woodworth, American Author

Hurt, Race, Shame

"I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon."

Mark David Chapman, American Criminal

"I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person."

Billy Preston, American Musician

"Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match."

Stan Mikita, Canadian Athlete

"Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen."

Dick Armey, American Politician

"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."

Tom Berenger, American Actor

"When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt."

Jim Otto, American Athlete

"There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt."

Tillie Olsen, American Novelist

"Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."

Michael Jackson, American Musician

"I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have."

Merlin Olsen, American Athlete

"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."

Peter Benchley, American Author

"The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security."

Dennis C. Blair, American Public Servant

Hurt, National security, World

"Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost."

David Neeleman, Brazilian Businessman

"After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad."

Sterling Marlin, American Athlete

Hurt, Kentucky, Therapy

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Hurt, Man, Mind

"I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough."

Dana Hill, American Actress

Hurt, Teenage, Years

"It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

"Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you."

Perry Farrell, American Musician

"There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard."

John Astin, American Actor

"When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed."

Jane Fonda, American Actress

"I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

Hurt, Want, Writing

"I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit."

Terry Fox, Canadian Athlete

"Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected."

Fiona Apple, American Musician

"I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much."

Evel Knievel, American Entertainer

"I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?"

Loretta Young, American Actress

Hurt, Right, Want

"If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me."

Louise Fletcher, American Actress

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