134 quotes found
“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
“The power to compel is not the same thing as leadership, and one does inspire the other. You are not a leader, Walters, you are a bully and a coward of the worst kind. the fear you believe you insp...”
“If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”
“If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?”
“What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128”
“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.”
“Id rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.”
“I dont understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes, Mum groans. Its a horrible name.Well make it beautiful, youll see. Or better, well make it powerful.”
“Whats the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Dont hold back, now. Youre probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are t...”
“Even bullying was important to Wonder Woman, and in Sensation Comics #23 she stopped a gang who were picking on a young boy, showed the head bully the error of his ways and learned about his home s...”
“They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their c...”
“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”
“A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.”
“Stop blaming racism, politics, bullies, your crappy parents, your ex-wife, your lack of friends or anything else for your problems. Sometimes, I think our problems are really just opportunities to ...”
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put o...”
“It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people's cruelty bounce right off of you.”
“All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.”
“When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to des...”
“It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.”