Self Inflicted Quotes - Page 2

• The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Self, Facts

  "Will Arnold Be Back After '06?" by Ed O'keefe, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2006.

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• Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Self, Legs

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• When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self, People, Giving

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

  William J. Clinton

  Golf, Self, Way

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• When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

  Anne Lamott

  Ignorance, Hair, Self

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• While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially when God does not remove the cup from us. In such circumstances, when reminded about the premortal shouting for joy as this life's plan was unfolded (Job 38:7), we can perhaps be pardoned if, in some moments, we wonder what all the shouting was about.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jobs, Reality, Self

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• Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Self, Class, Roots

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• Every moment away from you feels like time spent in a sort of cell. I can think of nothing, dream of nothing, but you. Unfortunately, I will have to remain in my self-inflicted prison a bit longer, since work will keep me from meeting you tonight. I can't seem to find a way to avoid this... however, I hope this gift will make up for my unforgivable behavior. I saw this and though of you, and St. George. You have slain the dragon. Until we meet again, I am your Lucien.

  Meg Cabot

  Dream, Thinking, Dragons

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• Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Self, Common

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• The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.

  Ed Silvoso

  Teacher, Clever, Army

  Ed Silvoso (2010). “Anointed for Business (Large Print 16pt)”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Self

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• Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Self, Unity, Vietnam

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• But poverty, with most who whimper forth
  Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
  The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

  William Cowper

  Writing, Self, Long

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.233

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• We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

  Prince Philip

  Military, Self, Suffering

  1961 Speech to British industrialists, London, 17 Oct.

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• There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

  John Boyne

  Hate, Men, Self

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• The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

  William Styron

  Suicide, Self, People

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

  Slash

  Self, Disaster, Transcendent

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• To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.

  Simon Schama

  Memories, Patriotic, Loss

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough … and then just let go of all the rest.

  Duane Elgin

  Letting Go, Self, Important

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• Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

  John Lydon

  Loneliness, Men, Self

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  Harlan Coben

  Jobs, Real, Inspiration

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• When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Eye, Awards

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• Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

  Erich Heller

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

  Eric Butterworth

  Self, Sin, Nonsense

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