Wound Quotes

727 Wound quotes by 553 unique authors

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million. — Joe Louis
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. — Robert Bly
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. — Dennis Potter
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the… — Ann Patchett
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot… — Mary-Louise Parker
We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving. — Marla Sokoloff
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The… — Howard E. Wasdin
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional… — Willa Cather
Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a… — James Vila Blake
One service to need heals an ancient wound. — Mary Anne Radmacher
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it,… — Joy Williams
If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day… — Fuzzy Zoeller
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the… — Darrell Royal
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again! — Woody Allen
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul,… — Elizabeth Prentiss
Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds.… — Janet Malcolm
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly… — Olive Schreiner

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