“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
“People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.”
Advice given to her protégée, Kiron Skinner, while serving as Provost at Stanford University; quoted in James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans (Penguin Books, New York: 2004, ISBN 0-143-03489-8, p. 227.
“The best speeches are those that hurt your mind, not your ear.”
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“I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 21).
“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”
Source: The Transit of Venus
“rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.”
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 11 “Self-Distraction is Self-Destruction” (p. 325)
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
Source: Silas Marner