Top 100 Harm'd Quotes
#1. Of Equality
as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself
as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Walt Whitman
#2. Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?
Alyson Noel
#3. I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views ... and then go back to Alaska.
Sandra Bernhard
#4. Thus her reply with accent sweet renewd. If this be our condition, thus to dwell In narrow circuit strait'nd by a Foe, Suttle or violent, we not endu'd Single with like defence, wherever met, How are we happie, still in fear of harm?
John Milton
#5. I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex.
Sarah J. Maas
#6. Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.
P.D. James
#7. Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?
Kenneth Patchen
#8. All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
John Wayne
#9. What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#10. You are my queen. I've spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend's son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I'd die before I'd allow harm to you. He bowed his head.
Melissa Marr
#11. Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you'd think. It is a paradox.
T. Greenwood
#12. I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I'd been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.
Kate White
#13. What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. Where you go, I go,
What you see, I see,
I know I'd never be me without the security,
Are your loving arms keeping me from harm
Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.
Adele
#15. I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.
Emily Bronte
#16. I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
#17. Gripping his sword, Jace gave a slight nod to assure him that he'd take on the whole village and die before letting any harm befall Kyrin. Satisfied, Kaden and Trev went on.
Jaye L. Knight
#18. I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
Jeff Buckley
#19. I was thinking between 3 and 4 this morning, of my 55 years. I lay awake so calm, so content, as if I'd stepped off the whirling world into a deep blue quiet space and there open eyed existed, beyond harm; armed against all that can happen.
Virginia Woolf
#20. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#21. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
Joyce Cary
#22. Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins
#24. We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and be killed.It is what opens the gate.
Simon Holt
#25. Black trauma is never given space to heal because we have to make sure the white people who hurt us don't feel too bad about it. Even as victims, we're told to care about the feelings of those who harm us.
Luvvie Ajayi
#26. Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
Dalai Lama
#27. My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things.
Stephenie Meyer
#28. Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D, Chiron put in.
Rick Riordan
#29. The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.
William D. Burt
#30. I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.
Robert B. Parker
#31. I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).
Claudia Gray
#32. We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.
Anthony D. Williams
#33. The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
P.D. Ouspensky
#34. Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.
James Surowiecki
#35. If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.
Stephenie Meyer
#36. Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.
Rachel Klein
#37. Like a maniac, she'd threatened the director of the NSA with bodily harm - very descriptively - if he didn't help her.
Katie Reus
#38. When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.
Christina Ricci
#39. If we were all minimalists instead of conspicuous consumers, there would be less demand on the world's resources and we'd have a smaller, less berserk economy. We'd be less likely to harm the only planet we'll ever have, and the super-rich would have fewer ways to exploit us.
Robert Wringham
#40. Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#41. Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#42. I'd single-handedly go to war and burn their whole organization to the ground before I ever let them harm what was mine. And there were no two ways about it- Brighton would always be mine.
A. Zavarelli
#43. So you'd keep me here against my will-"
"Know this pirate," he said, his hands gripping the railing, "you are my passenger, and I will be damned before I let any harm come to you.
Alexandra Bracken
#44. I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
Owen D. Young
#45. Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves.
Jules Verne
#46. All I'd heard about, really, was how fine and clean Buddy was and how he was the kind of person a girl should stay fine and clean for. So I didn't really see the harm in anything Buddy would think up to do.
Sylvia Plath
#47. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
But what if I don't want to catch the flies? What if I'd rather see them swatted?
Mindy McGinnis
#48. First do no harm. -Hippocrates
Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Anne M. Lipton
#49. Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.
Omar Suleiman
#50. He'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm to her or made her unhappy. He'd tortured himself with painful knowledge: every white-hot factoid he could collect he'd shove up under his fingernails. The more it hurt, the more
he was convinced
he loved her.
Margaret Atwood
#51. If you were mine, I'd never willingly put you in a situation where you'd be in danger. I'd lay my life on the line to protect you, not put you in harm's way while I sat tight and waited for you to come to me.
Victoria Gray
#52. The current practices of distributing resources are not sustainable and will continue to harm the environment if we do not evolve our methods into procedures that are more practical based on the needs of today's society.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#53. I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
Oleg Cassini
#54. I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
#55. Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare
#56. Harm began to come to Hornblower from that day forth, despite his obedience to orders and diligent study of his duties, and it stemmed from the arrival in the midshipmen's berth of John Simpson as senior warrant officer.
C.S. Forester
#57. I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
Norman Vincent Peale
#58. A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#59. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.
Maya Banks
#60. Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
David Bowie
#61. As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
#62. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Rufus King
#63. A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.
Peter Jackson
#64. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.
Bob Mcdowell
#65. He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her.
Margaret Mitchell
#66. We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.
Richard Armitage
#67. It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.
Denene Millner
#68. I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.
Chris Cannon
#69. If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
William Kingdon Clifford
#70. 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.
Brad Meltzer
#71. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#72. Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.
Tim Bowler
#73. Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.
Edward Said
#74. It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Mindy McGinnis
#75. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.
Nancy Werlin
#76. Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative pretensions, that our faiths do harm.
William James
#77. When I rehearse, it ends up doing more harm than good. I think I work a little bit better when it's right off the bat. Mostly, I try to wrap my head around a role as much as I can without rehearsing and then kind of make it as fresh as possible on the day.
Charlie Tahan
#78. The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.
Desmond Tutu
#80. Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
Benjamin Franklin
#81. Edward shook his head. "I'm going to do the same thing with Miss Marshall that I do to everyone I love. I'm going to leave before I can do her harm."
Patrick looked at him, his mouth quirking skeptically.
"I will," Edward said. "Just as soon as I can get everyone else to leave her alone.
Courtney Milan
#82. It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Adams
#83. At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
William Adams
#84. Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.
Diane Frolov
#85. Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.
G.A. Henty
#86. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause
Ibn Taymiyyah
#87. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.
Yoshida Shoin
#88. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
R. K. Milholland
#89. I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.
Dermot Bolger
#90. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.
Leila Sales
#91. This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.
Johnny Rich
#92. It sounds bizarre, but I sort of understood why some people would cause physical harm to themselves when going through emotionally difficult times. Physical pain can make you forget just about everything else.
Brandi Glanville
#93. Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
harm's way every day, every week, every year.
James McGreevey
#94. President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg
#95. Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
Ovid
#97. While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
Dorothy Denning
#98. Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
Jeff Lindsay
#99. I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them
Henry Rollins
#100. We are the ring of steel around Lord Rahl himself... Two thousand strong. We fall to a man before harm gets a glance at Lord Rahl.
-Commander General Trimack
Terry Goodkind
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