Patrick Henry Quotes

Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.

Patrick Henry

• Hurt
• Love You
• Cactus
• Loving Someone

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• We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Hope
  • Hurt
  • Dinner

• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Unless

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Success
  • Team
  • Practice

• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • See

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Hurt
  • Learn
  • Down

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Hurt

• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Hurt

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Remember

• International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Taken
  • Present

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt? I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain, Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name. I was to blame, my life never been the same. A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me. My classmate died, my other friend named Cory Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window, Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we'll talk about it. I'll tell her that she's a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Great
  • Long
  • She

• I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fair
  • Don't Think

• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Trying
  • Character
  • High

• Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hurt
  • Love You
  • Cactus