Getting Hurt Quotes - Page 2

• 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'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Hurt, Want, Opinion

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• Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Hurt, Fighting, Actors

  "Aaron Eckhart Talks ERASED, the Appeal of Spy Thrillers, His Physical Preparation for the Role, I, FRANKENSTEIN, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17, 2013.

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• When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top.

  Jerry Rice

  Hurt, Fire, Nfl

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• The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Hurt, Luck

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• We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.

  Ayrton Senna

  Hurt, Dying, Way

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Courage, Hurt, Effort

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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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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