Injury Quotes - Page 2

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Injuries are our best teachers.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Adultery is the injury of nature.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.