Wounds Quotes - Page 38

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  Nathan Fillion

  Pride, Self, Littles

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• You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Awards, Wounds And Scars

  Flaunt Interview, www.flaunt.com. April 12, 2014.

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• Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wings, Yield, May

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

  Amy Grant

  Teenage, Years, America

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• How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Mets, Hated

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  William Hazlitt

  Positive, Running, Men

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.37

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• Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Business, Cells

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Military, Years, Two

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1992.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Washington Irving

  Grieving, Funeral, Bereavement

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  Samuel Johnson

  Debt, Littles, Noise

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.304

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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

  Society, Cleaning, Neighborhood

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• My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Feet, Car, Mind

  "Shia LaBeouf and Dane DeHaan Talk LAWLESS, Sampling Moonshine, and Bringing These Characters to Life". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Dream, Memories

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• I believe time wounds all heels.

  John Lennon

  Believe, I Believe, Heels

  "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

  Courtney Love

  Damn, Wanted

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• I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

  John Mayer

  Mistake, Self, Tears

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• It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Issues, Race

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• Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Vanity, Hardest

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• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Lying, Power

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• Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

  Novalis

  Inspiring, Healing, Poetry

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Jonathan Williams, p. 136, 1989.

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• When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

  Gary Numan

  Kids, People, News

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• America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

  John Olver

  Emotional, Battle Wounds, Iraq

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• Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

  Roy Orbison

  Short Love, Hurt, Sadness

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