Hurtful Quotes

I learned that it can be very hurtful to talk about others. You know, I read a quote by Oprah Winfrey where she said, "Turn your wounds into wisdom". It`s not nice to spread rumors.

"Let me start by saying it wasn`t like I walked out one day and said, `I quit.` It was a very long process of quitting the show. Aaron got as fed up with me as I was with the show, and I think it was because the notoriety was too much. People were hating the character and I couldn`t take the abuse that came with that. People couldn`t separate me from her and I got sick of people assuming that I was as naughty and bad as Brenda was. It was all very hurtful." - Cleo Magazine, August 2000

Someone asked me why I`m politically correct, even when people hit out so openly at me. But the truth is, I`ve never been brought up to behave any other way. I can`t say anything hurtful about anyone. I just don`t believe in saying mean things. I won`t feel good doing that. It`s strange why being well behaved is perceived as being too `propah` and staid. This is the way I am. I`m amazed how many people feel good hitting out at me. They`re welcome to do it. Earlier, they had more leeway to deny their indiscretions in print. But now on television they look pretty ridiculous denying what they say.

I will never forget that. I was really young, about 6 or 7, and as a kid, that was very hurtful to me. I went through a lot, from age 15 to about 19 years. I was very young. I used to hurt so badly that I`d ask God why, what have I done to deserve this? - on recalling the day her father told her to stop calling him Dad.

It was hard to believe people could be that mean and hurtful just because you wanted to make a living.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Maybe it`s legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven`t paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Of course it`s hurtful but I know it`s not the way a lot of people on his side of politics behave,

Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.