#hurting

It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#colton #cope #coping #cutting #drinking

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#hurting #respecting-others #respect

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke. ↗

— Selma Blair

#anyone #anything #being #belief #feelings

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them. ↗

— Chester Brown

#doing #fearing #front #get #going

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#going #hurting #people #understand #you

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#chancellor #failing #george #his #hold

Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting. ↗

— Kirsty Coventry

#change #everyone #hurting #including #knows

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#already #clout #concerned #daily #daily lives

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it. ↗

— Jimmie Walker

#bombing #bottom #bottom line #end #gonna

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. ↗

— Mort Walker

#bailey #beetle #day #disciplinary #editor