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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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• I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Heart, Nerves

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

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• I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

  John Dryden

  Determination, Fighting, Littles

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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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• Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Numbness, Next Day

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Anchor

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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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• I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Strong, Real

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• There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Bird, Get Better

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.170, Penguin

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• Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Children, Father, Said

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.182, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

  George Eliot

  Kissing, Forgotten, Empty

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Essentials, Way

  Paul Auster (2010). “Sunset Park: A Novel”, p.185, Macmillan

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• Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

  Bill Bryson

  Order, Quests, Tiny

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

  Dean Koontz

  War, Taken, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1113, Bantam

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• Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Information, Enough

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.25, David C Cook

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• We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.

  John Green

  Love You, Missing, Battle

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.70, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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