Injury Quotes - Page 31

• One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Quality, Principles

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• Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Mean, Design

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• Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

  Robert Ludlum

  Pain, Recovery, Past

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.155, Bantam

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• Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Soccer, Football, Clubs

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• There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

  Pierre Bayle

  Men, Giving, Justice

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• Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

  Pat LaFontaine

  Nhl, Risk, Getting High

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• My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

  Harriet Martineau

  Christian, Feelings, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.444, Cambridge University Press

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• To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.

  Jean Meslier

  Men, Common Sense, Atheism

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• We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.

  Les Miles

  Team, School, Player

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• The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum.

  Les Miles

  Stars, Team, Player

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• Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Recovery, Lakers

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• I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Home, Fake

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• I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Math, Numbers

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• I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

  John F. Kerry

  Mother, Abortion, Tests

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Athlete, Long, Challenges

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.

  Brené Brown

  Betrayal, Love Is, Two

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.93, Penguin

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• I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me, could you strap me in upside down? I'd like to be as sick as humanly possible. I feel great today, I think I'll go down to Funland and snap my neck on the back of a ride. Honey, let's bring the kids, I want to give them a spinal cord injury for Christmas.'

  Dom Irrera

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.

  John Calvin

  Thinking, Order, May

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Agents, Body

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

  Confucius

  Economy

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Too Much, Conviction

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• We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, Kindness, Self

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• In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

  Honore de Balzac

  France, Remedy, Knows

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• Newcastle are absolutely besotted by injuries.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Newcastle

  "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.

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• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Kings, Adventure

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