Wounded Quotes - Page 10

• Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

  Tessa Dare

  Character, Heart, Voice

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• Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

  James Woods

  Teenage, Warrior, Boys

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

  Robert Vaughn

  Believe, Boys, Wicked

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• Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Bird, Weakness

  "Why Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes Speech Was So Infuriating" By Karen Ocamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• My inner child is not wounded.

  Shannen Doherty

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.

  John McCain

  Long, People, Training

  "McCain defends '100 years in Iraq' statement". edition.cnn.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

  Teju Cole

  Eye, Way, Hippo

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.240, Faber & Faber

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• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  Garry Trudeau

  Nice, Military, Moving

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• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  William Cowper

  Healing, Men, Feelings

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.136

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• I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Husband, Father, Tired

  Letter to James E. Yeatman on May 21, 1865. "Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace". Book by Charles Edmund Vetter, p. 289, 1992.

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• I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Lions, Claws

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1351

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• We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

  Bo Sanchez

  Get Well, Healing, Humility

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• Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Powerful, People, Generosity

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• She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

  Candice Millard

  Husband, Despair, Entering

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• Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

  Stevie Smith

  Love Is, Hands, Bleeding

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.103, New Directions Publishing

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• O my God, teach me to be generous
  to serve you as you deserve to be served
  to give without counting the cost
  to fight without fear of being wounded
  to work without seeking rest
  and to spend myself without expecting any reward
  but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
  Amen

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Giving, Cost

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• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Hurt, Pride, Vanity

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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• Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

  Barbara Delinsky

  Deer, Beast

  Barbara Delinsky (2008). “Lake News”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  War, British Soldiers, Victory

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  Military, War, Sleep

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people gave to my children. Wrong my kids, you wrong me. And my hurt qualifies me to forgive you. But only for the pain you caused me when you wounded them. My children alone are qualified to forgive you for what you did to them.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Pain

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• Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

  Maxim Gorky

  Truth, Soul, Heal

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.55, Courier Dover Publications

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• The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther's ; it was his Comment on the Galatians! ... I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart ... I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Heart, Hands

  "The pilgrim's progress: from this world to that which is to come; delivered under the similitude of a dream".

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• Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

  Pat Benatar

  Love, Children, Pain

  Song: Hell is for Children, Album: Best Shots

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• The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Grief, Honor

  "On War". www.nybooks.com. December 16, 2004.

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