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• I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

  Jon Bernthal

  Wanted, Beaten

  Source: collider.com

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• With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

  John Smith

  Country, World, Causes

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Careers, Track

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Queens, People, Emmanuel

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect....what I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? ...Death on the other hand, is the final silence...my silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.

  Audre Lorde

  Believe, Hands, Silence

  Essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider, www.csusm.edu. December 28, 1977.

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• I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Medicine, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Native American, Racism

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• It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler in the half-pipe. It was a trick that no one else was really doing, and it was scary! But I stuck with it, and one day, it finally clicked. The crippler has been my signature trick ever since, and it's what helped me be so successful in competition.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Eye, Successful, Years

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• You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

  JoBeth Williams

  Women, Heart, Broken

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• The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

  Azar Nafisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.92, Random House

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• And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

  Anne Rice

  Lonely, Heart, Broken

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• Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Soul, Problem

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• A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Dirty

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently and given gladly. It had happened so fast and sharp it had taken her breath. Perhaps she had done it wrong, somehow. She put the kiss away firmly to think about later. Instead, she smiled at him and pulled a carefree mask over her face.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Nice, Taken

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• And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It always looks good. i mean--you look brave. Dauntless." His eyes skirt mine, and he scratches the back of his head. The silence grows between us. It was a nice thing to say, but he acts like it means more than just words. I hope I am wrong. I could not be attracted to Al-- I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile. I smile as much as my bruised cheek will allow, hoping that will diffuse the tension.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Mean, Eye

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• I cross my arms. "It was a two minute conversation." "I don't think a smaller time frame makes it less unwise." He furrows his eyebrows and touches the corner of my bruised eye with his fingertips. My head jerks back, but he doesn't take his hand away. Instead he sighs. "You know, if you could just learn to attack first, you might do better." "Attack first?" I say. "How will that help?" "You're fast. If you can get a few good hits in before they know what's going on, you could win." He shrugs, and his hand falls.

  Veronica Roth

  Fall, Eye, Winning

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• Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Healing, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

  Michael Grant

  Mother, Faces, Pennies

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• Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Self Esteem, Criticism, Self

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Men, Challenges

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

  Richard Sibbes

  Heaven, Sound, Hell

  Richard Sibbes (1995). “Light from Heaven”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Real, Way, Action

  FaceBook post by Mads Mikkelsen from Jun 02, 2016

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• I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that never totally heal. There's closure and then there's stuff that's kind of like, Well, I guess it's going to be in the minivan forever. And you carry it with you and you continue on your journey with your minivan full of stuff, which I think most of us do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Journey, Thinking, Forever

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• ... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

  Amelia Barr

  Limitation

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