Injury Quotes

• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred

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• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

  Thomas Szasz

  Positive, Education, Children

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

  Sivananda

  Children, Heart, Hatred

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  A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Evil, Accountability

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.110, Taylor & Francis

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• As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Player, Games

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• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

  Confucius

  Love, Wise, Kindness

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Xunzi

  Dog, Numbers, Knowing

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• Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Pain, Survival, Scar

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, May

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

  E. W. Howe

  Suffering, Remedy

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• Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

  Geoff Hoon

  Soldier, Ministers, Including

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• There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

  Richard Krajicek

  Memories, Wife, Tennis

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• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue

  Bradley Whitford

  Couple, Writing, Past

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Head Injuries, Whole Family, Difficult

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• I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

  Shannon Miller

  Thinking, Complaining, Mileage

  "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• Ive had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise Ive been incredibly lucky with my fitness. Ive worked hard at it and Ive always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Player, Careers, Lucky

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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• Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

  Abe Fortas

  Essentials, Stories, Journalism

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• Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

  Alan Minter

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

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• I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

  Scott Speedman

  Swim, Levels, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Patience, Opposites, Honor

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark R, p. 245, 1732.

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• But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

  Richard Krajicek

  Years, Games, Elbows

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• I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

  Bill Buckner

  Ankles, Clubs, Helping

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• But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Player, Periods, Equipment

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• It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Friendship, Silence, Overcoming

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