Inflicted Quotes
202 Inflicted quotes by 179 unique authors
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so…
— Jefferson Davis
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When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
— Sebastian Coe
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The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing…
— Wayne Muller
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Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now…
— Elena Ferrante
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And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted…
— Nicholas Wolterstorff
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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely…
— Oscar Wilde
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And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and…
— Saddam Hussein
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While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially when…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
— Erykah Badu
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It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted,…
— Diane Nash
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When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and…
— David A. Bednar
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We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and…
— Mitch Daniels
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What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing…
— Pope Pius XI
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Death is death no matter how it is inflicted
— Fritz Haber
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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
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The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions…
— Frederick Leboyer
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The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought…
— Lynda Lee-Potter
Who Wrote These Inflicted Quotes
179 authors contributed a total of 202 Inflicted Quotes, led by these top contributors: