Injury Quotes - Page 36

• I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

  Kiesza

  Years, Choices, Ballet

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, I Am What I Am

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

  Jay Leno

  Balls, Imagine, Sleazes

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• The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Smarter

  "To Mikhail Baryshnikov, time is a great teacher". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.latimes.com. August 30, 2009.

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• I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Mean, Modern Life

  'The Cherry Orchard' (1904) act 2

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• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Dust

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• I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

  Bear Grylls

  Ridiculous

  "Discovery’s Bear Grylls Interview". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2009.

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• Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

  Randy Johnson

  Patience, Hurt, Hard Work

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• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Passion, Justice

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Thinking, Feelings

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• Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

  Mort Walker

  Inspirational, Funny, Happiness

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• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

  Graham Greene

  Hurt, Pain, Philosophy

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Mind, World

  Ted Nugent (2000). “God, guns, and rock 'n' roll”, Regnery Press

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• The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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• The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Sick

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

  Alfred Adler

  Spring, Men, Fellow Man

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• Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Offering

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.153, Penguin

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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

  Wilkie Collins

  Giants, Our Words, Dwarfs

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.45, e-artnow sro

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• When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Errors, Silence

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• You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

  Salman Rushdie

  Judging, Size, Holes

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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