William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.

You act in different ways for your own personal well-being, and you don't think about the people you hurt along the way. wish I would have thought about it.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

I grow old on my bitterness.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

Sometimes people do get hurt

It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together." We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---" You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!" It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it!

Few men know all the ill they do.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

God save us from people who mean well.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.