Getting Hurt Quotes - Page 2

• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  Veronica Webb

  Running, Hurt, Down And

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• Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Running, Hurt, Memories

  Transcript: Drew Bledsoe Conference Call, www.patriots.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

  Bennett Cerf

  Hurt, People, Work Out

  Bennett Cerf (2012). “At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf”, p.74, Random House

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• I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

  Cathy Rigby

  Hurt, Parent, Bed

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hurt, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

  Jason Kidd

  Hurt, Player, Games

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• I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different.

  Jane Green

  Hurt, Giving, Cynical

  Jane Green (2003). “Mr Maybe”, p.136, Penguin UK

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• I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he's got to face. The hero is more disciplined and he fights those feelings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the coward. People who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you fee.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hurt, Hero, Kids

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• I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Home, Opening Up

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.187, Penguin

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• Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

  Holly Lisle

  Hurt, Attitude, Adventure

  Holly Lisle (2010). “The Silver Door”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?

  Ai Yazawa

  Girl, Hurt, Fate

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• If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Riding, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.228, Penguin

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• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.

  Ai Yazawa

  Hurt, Good Friend, Fighting

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• "After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt." "How long did you wait?" "I haven't stopped."

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hurt, Night, Long

  "Shiver". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, August 1, 2009.

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• It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Ideas, Gossip

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Lying, Two

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• Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Courage, Hurt, Effort

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• But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mom, Brother, Hurt

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Growing Up, Moving

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.248, Penguin

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• Training is the key to keep people from getting hurt.

  Gary Fisher

  Hurt, Keys, People

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• For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding.

  Jack Dempsey

  Hurt, New York, Character

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• If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

  Damon Dash

  Hurt, Get Money, Arguing

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• I know this sounds weird, but getting hurt was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It really gave me a different perspective. Before, everything was going how it was supposed to be and I wasn't really appreciative of what I was doing and what it took to be there. The injury grounded me in a lot of different ways. The rehab process makes you stronger on all fronts, mentally and physically. I feel stronger and a better person for it. I would never wish it on anyone, but I don't wish I could take it back.

  Megan Rapinoe

  Hurt, Perspective, Wish

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• With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

  Tori Spelling

  Hurt, Giving Up, Mistake

  Tori Spelling, Hilary Liftin (2009). “STORI Telling”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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