Wounds Quotations

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

Murakami's characters sense the potential liquification and destruction of everything. The aftershocks are psychological, and can be seen in characters who are some distance from the epicenter of the chaos in both time and space. The rifts, the fissures -- and those words are repeated often in the text -- are inside them now: there are separations and openings in their hearts, wounds and cracks in their psyches.

One of the peacekeepers was reportedly killed on the spot. The other two were taken to hospital where one of them died of his wounds shortly after.

My goal is for us to clear $10,000 on it, ... If we can clear $10,000, I'll be quite happy. We can lick our wounds and get ready for next year.

Momentum is everything in every sport. And it just really showed up for us today. We were excited after the bars, instead of licking our wounds and being upset.

She fought back very hard. That was very obvious from the scene. I saw the wounds to the head that killed her and the rest just looked like a fight that she might have even been winning. That coward needed a weapon to beat her ... It just looked like a crime scene photo I've seen over and over.

The primary goal is to save as many lives as possible as quickly as possible. As they go down the hallway, they have to assess the wounds and find the bad guys.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Given the president's gaping political wounds from Katrina, you're seeing the federal government weighing in with overwhelming force and supplies. The system is energized this time.

Giving love and not getting it back wounds the heart, but loving someone in silence without the courage to let them know, wounds the soul.

For us it was about the little things. We talk about executing, and we did at times. Our defense was playing lights out. But, we didn't get the points we needed in the first half off all those opportunities. But, our kids showed guts and marched down the field to make it interesting. We just have to lick our wounds and fix our consistency.

Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

He gets treated in a whirlpool. They remove the scabs and treat the wounds until they can begin the skin grafting process. My sister is a nurse. She's taking care of the wounds here.

I was concerned to a point. I thought maybe we were going to be a little flat again, maybe still licking our wounds a little.

It is entirely fitting that we stand under this survival tree. This tree scarred by disaster, which has yet found a way to persevere. The wounds will never completely heal yet it continues to grow.

It is Europe's response to the end of the Cold War and an opportunity to heal the wounds of the past, wounds of war and dictatorship,

I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.

Last Monday, a tragic series of errors, negligence and accidents suddenly cast us into darkness, tears, wounds and mourning.

I think you would have to say that Gov. Bush has had a rougher passage to the nomination. McCain stung him badly in New Hampshire and then came back from the South Carolina to win again in Michigan ... the kind of state that represents a battleground in a general election. Losing to McCain there really did inflict some wounds on Bush.

I think it's a little too soon. The memories are still fresh, the wounds still raw.

We've got one more game left. We have to lick our wounds and hopefully end the season on a winning note. Hopefully the kids won't pack it in and I don't think they will. We have a ways to go to play in the same league as CBA and so does everybody else. They've blown everybody out this year. We just have to gather ourselves and see what happens next week.

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

Time, time will heal the wound.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

We would be wrong to hide our extreme disappointment, and the wounds of that disappointment will not heal easily.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound.

Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable to diabetes, vascular disease and many of the other conditions that lead to chronic wounds.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in the hearts of women and time will never heal them.

Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know when there is going to be a bomb alongside you or even under your vehicle, ... Also, the guns used in combat in Iraq don't create the kind of wounds a street gun might in America. These guns fire at a much higher velocity, creating a lot more damage.

Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.

When you play a good team, you need to execute, take self-inflicted wounds out of your game and make special plays. Obviously, that wasn't the case.

I've been taught to play the full nine innings. I play hard. I have the wounds to prove it.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

As soon as we got them, we lost a few right away for their wounds were just too great, ... But out of 12 people that night, we saved nine.

The Steelers, still nursing their wounds after their first loss of the season to the New England Patriots, will be back in full force to take on the explosive Chargers, ... The AFC is tough and these are both very good teams who want to prove they are at the head of the class in the conference.

The wounds are in the process of healing, ... They have not healed, but there are isolated moments where you can note progress here on this hill.

The wounds from the East Timor crisis are still very apparent in Indonesia and it's one of the things that makes Papua so sensitive -- the fear that Australia will do an East Timor with Papua, that's why this issue is so damaging.

What this is really showing us is that there potentially is a discretionary part to emergency room visits. We're not talking about gunshot wounds or car accidents but at the level of a really bad cold.

Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well

They say time heals but it doesn't actually. It covers up the wounds and then they open up again.

They suffered fatal wounds immediately. It was a quick incident.

They're young people and they're sitting out there saying, 'Where do I want to go with my money?' ... In the investment world, time heals all wounds ?I can almost assure you the mountain will get bigger in the future.

Rose Jones and Patty (Evans, his wife) make this office run. Rose does it all, from patching up wounds to offering advice. Her and Patty run the show.

There should be a much more fluid and positive relationship in all fields, ... I think that to a certain extent the wounds have healed, but it is important to deal with this subject which was a cause of confrontation between us for so many years.

Your virtue is your shield; your vice is the weapon that inflicts wounds on you.

I know there are scars and wounds from battles fought. It is a different day and a different process.

I'm a tomboy at heart, and I've got the battle wounds to prove it!

I had that feeling the minute I met him that I could do a movie about somebody coming back from the dead, ... One of the times when I was getting a little hyperbolic and melodramatic, I wrote down, 'A black-gangster Jesus with the wounds to prove it.'

I hope that this agreement allows all of us to begin to look to the future and turn to the business of healing the wounds of the past, both here and in Switzerland,

The news that a third British citizen has died from his wounds from the attack in Iraq is terrible -- terrible for his family and for his community -- and it is something which all of us condemn unreservedly,

The NFL has been very good about solving problems before they got out of hand, ... Pro football has certainly suffered fewer self-inflicted wounds than other sports.

The NFL has been very good about solving problems before they got out of hand. Pro football has certainly suffered fewer self-inflicted wounds than other sports.

It's been pretty devastating. We're trying to lick our wounds and move forward. They're coming back, that's the good news. I hope that we can put things together.

At this time of the year - I know it doesn't sound very inspirational - but mostly rest. We played 27 games and guys are hurt. It's mostly just licking your wounds and deciding whether you're going to mail it in or go compete.