Injury Quotes - Page 36

• The man is free who is protected from injury.

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Men, He Man

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• Losers never know why they are losing. They will mention injuries, the officiating, the weather and bad breaks.

  George Allen

  Weather, Losing, Loser

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• Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Men, Hatred

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

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• There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Suffering

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• I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Thinking, Feelings

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• You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

  Salman Rushdie

  Judging, Size, Holes

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

  Tacitus

  Gratitude, Revenge, Men

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• In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

  Aesop

  Pain, Being Thankful, Wicked

  "Aesop’s Fables".

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• It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Overcoming, Violence

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt look, full of apology. "I'd forgotten that you see. Coming back to life ... It hurts.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Pain, Get Well

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Twice Tempted by a Rogue”, p.357, Ballantine Books

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• Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Taken

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.52, A&C Black

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• No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Men, Emotional

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• There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

  David Gere

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

  Louis C. K.

  Women, Heart, Numbers

  "Louis C.K. Oh My God". Documentary, Comedy, 2013.

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• You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Depression, Memories, Eye

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• You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 06, 2014

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• If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiving, Mind, Body

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• I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Hard Times, Back Again, Injured

  "Andriy Shevchenko backs Chelsea's Fernando Torres to start scoring" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2011.

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• This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Home, Doubt

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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• After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

  James Nicoll

  Together, Enough, Head Injuries

  Usenet article, 2002.

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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• Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Thrill, Pay, Ass

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• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

  Emma Forrest

  Tattoo, Years, Scar

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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