Injured Quotes

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

  Randy Pausch

  Lions, Want, Stills

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Government, Guarantees That, People

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• Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

  Edward Said

  Brother, Men, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Cycling is not impactful. Its just like when you are injured, have a knee surgery or something, there are so many things that you can still do, you just have to find that other passion that's out there.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Passion, Cycling, Knees

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• A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

  Lisa Unger

  Children, Sorry, Pain

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.747, Crown

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• There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Painful, Human Condition

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.6

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• Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Awkward, Hell, Situation

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

  Darrell Hammond

  Moving, Way, Ifs

  "'SNL's' Darrell Hammond Reveals Cutting, Abuse". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November, 2011.

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• We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Violent

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “Master and commander ; Post captain ; H.M.S. Surprise ; The Mauritius command”

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• Whom they have injured they also hate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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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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• I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Rita Rudner

  Dance, Dancing, Quitting

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• In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

  Rab Butler

  Running, Reality, Political

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• You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

  Edgar Guest

  Being Yourself, Truth, Thinking

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Hurt, Attitude, People

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Player

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• Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Life, Happy, Goodbye

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• Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous.

  Derek Sanderson

  Hurt, Hockey, Night

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• Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.

  Saul Bellow

  Pain, Betrayal, Cutting

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• The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

  Lucretius

  Discovery, Mind, Body

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• I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Sports, Stress

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• Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Sharks, Sea

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• She blinked at me, then realized I was panicking. Honestly, it was like admitting to murder before being interrogated. “Ms. Davidson,” she began, but I decided to trip her up, to throw her off the trail of blood I’d left like an injured animal. “I don’t speak English.

  Darynda Jones

  Animal, Blood, Speak English

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.475, St. Martin's Press

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