Wounded Quotes - Page 22

• I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

  Susan Meissner

  Prayer, People, Soul

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.57, WaterBrook

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• I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

  LeCrae

  Healing, Thinking, Scar

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

  Stephen Spender

  Army, Winter, Men

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Cutting, Offended

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Daughter, Women

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• During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Fighting, Winning

  "Fulbright: The Dissenter". Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.

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• A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Wings, Singing, Doe

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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• What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

  Gunter Grass

  Skins, Germany, Campaigns

  "A life in writing: Günter Grass" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

  Anita Brookner

  Strong, Belief, Satire

  1989 In The Spectator, 23 Mar.

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• From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.

  Pope Francis

  Fighting, Agreement, Rome

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.

  Tyne Daly

  Fighting, Battle, Shooting

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• The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Differences, Arrows, Abuse

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.160

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• Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

  Bernie Siegel

  Baby, Anger, Love You

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• God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Children, Thee

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• I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

  Shalom Harlow

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

  Peter Berg

  Military, Believe, Passion

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• Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Iraq, Soldier

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• To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

  Studs Terkel

  Survival, Triumph, Enough

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.262, The New Press

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• All great Christians have been wounded souls.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Soul, Has Beens

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fighting, Men, Order

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• Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Soul, Religion, World

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• A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

  Saadi

  Heart, Keys, Lovely

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• General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

  Edward Everett

  Action, Made, Disposition

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Compassion, People

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Flower, Gun

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