Wounds Quotes - Page 36

• I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Use, Stones

  "Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Events in the present can trigger quite a young part of ourselves. If we don't take responsibility and start looking after that young part of ourselves, we can start asking partners to look after that part of ourselves or we wound ourselves.

  Danny Boyle

  Responsibility, Events, Looks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Physical wounds heal, but those on the soul are difficult to heal.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Soul, Difficult, Heal

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing, in that I get so wound up in the film that I become selfless to the point where I lose too much weight.

  Steven Spielberg

  Selfless, Different, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I truly believe that recovery requires some kind of stasis where you have to sit and internalize and lick your wounds and confront that darkness. I think that being hurt and recovering from that hurt is important in building character.

  Justin Rutledge

  Hurt, Believe, Recovery

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant to my work on Mercy Street is that this illness is timeless. We didn't have a diagnosis for PTSD in the Civil War like we do today, but those men and women definitely suffered from similar psychological wounds as our men and women in uniform do today.

  Bryce Pinkham

  War, Men, Today

  Source: mercystreet.lunchbox.pbs.org

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• Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

  Edward Kowalczyk

  Helping, Heal

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• Somebody who opposes Trump is wound so tight, they're not funny people anyway, that they don't get his humor. They really believe when he tells these jokes that that's dead serious stuff. There's not enough laughter on the left. Even their comedians are angry. Their comedians, the humor they shoot for is all personal put-down kind of humor where it used to not be that way. But Trump's humor, even the stuff that's not subtle, they miss, they take it literally and are frightened to death by it. It's incredible.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Laughter, Believe, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and psychic wounds.

  Michael Tobias

  Helping, Speak, Environment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You know, I have never seen the level of anger and frustration and resentment and even disgust among millions of Americans toward the media. And I think there are a lot of self-inflicted wounds here, big mistakes that are not learned from, but also a lot of it the byproduct of a campaign in which the press appeared to be out of touch with the frustration of the many millions of Americans who helped put Donald Trump into the White House and just the way we botched it.

  Howard Kurtz

  Mistake, Frustration, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The first people that have the information are the hair and makeup ladies and the wardrobe people, because they often have to plan out the clothes: the things that are gonna get bloody, and the different kinds of gunshot wounds they're gonna have to do. They often have more of a preparation, more time, than we do. You can definitely feel on set the actors trying to get that information, and they're of sworn to secrecy.

  Gretchen Mol

  Makeup, People, Preparation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

  John McCain

  War, President, Heal

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self by working on the external manifestation of that thing in the world. And in fact, there may be no other way. You can sit in meditation for a long time and be blind to huge wounds in yourself, and it's only when you're engaging with the world that the wounds become visible, externalized.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Long, Meditation, World

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the morals that Israel would eventually get in the Torah, and to teach those same principles to their people. I'd also want to make sure they worship no other god but the Most High.

  Michael S. Heiser

  People, Moral, Worship

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Hurt, Powerful, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who never did find that which he could devote his life to. He sort of drifted from job to job. He was a traveling salesman, he was a bookkeeper, he was an office manager, he was here, there, there. And however enthusiastic he was at the beginning, his job would bore him. If I hadn't had the writing, I think I might have replicated what he was doing, which would not have been good.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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• Wounds simply won't heal if they are swept under the carpet.

  Payam Akhavan

  Carpet, Heal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'll tell you, when you have wounds that are as deep as were caused by the genocide, the first thing you do is try to create some way to pull the wound together. And it may be artificial until the skin grows back.

  Swanee Hunt

  Trying, Together, Skins

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are more people that are WORTH playing for and making records for than the fickle and casual - they just don't blog about what they hate as much. I feel like every show that we play live reminds me of why I play music. When you're away from that personal connection, you can get wound up in all the hoo-ha about this and that, but when you get out there and connect with people, you can't help but be moved, and that keeps you going at least until the next show!

  Ted Leo

  Hate, People, Helping

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It was very hard to revisit a part of my life in the In the Land of Blood and Honey movie, which I thought had been buried deep down in my soul. To go back to where we were, twenty years ago, it was painful. I knew it would open up old wounds.

  Goran Kostic

  Soul, Painful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being a teenage model was lot of fun, like playing dress-up. I'd feel ugly and awkward and chubby, and they'd transform me. Not that that makes everything better. Then my mom shopped the pictures around, I guess, and the agencies started calling. I wound up going with a little agency, Spectrum. It all happened really quickly, I started modeling for magazines like YM and Seventeen, and I did a couple of bigger things like Italian Vogue.

  Liv Tyler

  Mom, Couple, Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you’ve got physical weaknesses, you’ll lose. Nobody who gets cut easily can be a champion, however strong and talented he is. Boxers are trained to see and exploit their opponents’ weaknesses, they hit you on your wounds. Only the strongest survive in this sport.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Strong, Cutting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.

  Mark Leyner

  Book, Infatuation, Dictator

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

  James McBride

  Pain, Healing, Past

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read The Idiot? I think Dostoyevsky created a brilliant character there. He doesn't have any self-inflicted wounds. I love that. People don't like him because he's so pure.

  Josh Hartnett

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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