Jane Goodall Quotes

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.

'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

On a good day, I'm a bitter, angry, chip-on-my-shoulder type of guy.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me