Quotes about injury

Warder C. Allee - The Social Life Of Animals

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

John Scott Haldane -

A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldy bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break h

Chris Lear - and the University of Colorado Men's Cr

Bat asks Goucher if his leg is good, and Goucher shrugs. "All right." "Good or all right?" "All right enough." Batliner has been through the ringer enough, so he gives Goucher some advice he hopes Goucher will heed, "Be brave enough to call it early.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

Aesop -

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Confucius -

Recompense injury with justice and recompense kindness with kindness.

Kahlil Gibran -

If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.

Machiavelli -

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Alexander Smith -

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Niccolò Machiavelli -

Never do an enemy a small injury.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Everyone born is on the field of life’s game, but not everyone does wear the jersey of vision! Some people are fair players and others are injury causers; you joke with the later and they hit you down in pain and blood stains!

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!

Amit Kalantri -

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to

C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Nikki Rowe -

I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know,How was this to be apart of my destiny?

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Rebecca West - The Harsh Voice

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Josh Shipp - and the Pursuit of Awesomeness

If you've treated your girlfriend without respect, taken advantage of her, or cheated on her, your actions have taught her that she has no value. Needless to say, this is a serious, serious injury. If you don't try to make it right, she might start to believe the lie you've told her and spend the rest of her life thinking she deserves poor treatment.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!

Kristen Henderson - Of My Maiden Smoking

Think of the Christmas presentof gashes you opened when, in an attempt to be Superman, you slid in stocking feet on a slippery wood floor and crashed half way through a window. Hopes of heroism dashed on the heels of no clear sighting of Santa.

John Locke - Second Treatise of Government

Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparati

Nikki Rowe -

Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before, Some would say I'm selfish, To hold a little sadness in my eyes, But they don't feel the sorrow When I can't do, all that helps me feel alive. I can express my emotions, but I can't run wild and free, My mind and soul would handle it but hell upon my hip, ankle and knees, This disorder came about,as a friendship s

Peter A. Levine - In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave of fiery rage. My body continues to shake and tremble. It is alternately icy cold and feverishly hot. A burning red fury erupts from deep within my belly: How could that stupid kid hit me in a crosswalk? Wasn’t she paying attention? Damn her!A blast of shrill sirens and flashing red lights block out everything.My belly tightens, and my eyes again reach to find the woman’s kind gaze. W

Leslea Wahl - The Perfect Blindside

What was I thinking? He's been tied up for who knows how long and he's injured. I left him there alone to face two guys with guns. Some rescuer I am.

Nikki Rowe -

I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.

David Wong - Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.

Mahavira -

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

John Stuart Mill - On Liberty

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

G.A. Aiken - Dragon Actually

The bastard was effectively stuck until he and Morfyd helped him. Fearghus smiled a little at his father’s suffering and the female who caused it.I do love that woman.

Michael Sokolove - Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

William Ritter - Beastly Bones

Oh no. He looks half-dead." Charlie's face paled as he eyed the trapper's wrist and the blood-soaked bandages."Indeed." Jackaby nodded. "And if we don't get him some proper attention soon, he'll be all dead.

China Miéville - The Scar

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

Jim Beaver - Life's That Way

Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Kristin Cashore - Fire

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

Victoria Moran - Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

Tobe Hanson - The Four Seasons Way of Life: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth

Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.

Stephen M. Irwin - The Dead Path

Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.

Nikki Rowe -

There's something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn't exist & your not sure when it will return, but there's something beautiful in facing tragedy, a new type of being within you is born and one whom is more fearless than ever before.

Jaleigh Johnson - The Secrets of Solace

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

Leinad Eibam - Summer 2015

The greater the injury, the greater the fun.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

You can recovery from any injury.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Nikki Rowe -

Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS -

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

I'm ordered to a week of bed rest and I don't object because I feel so lousy. Not just my heel and my tailbone. My whole body aches with exhaustion. So I let my mother doctor me and feed me breakfast in bed and tuck another quilt around me. Then I just lie there, staring out my window at the winter sky, pondering how on earth this will all turn out.

Jeffrie G. Murphy - Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits

One great help here - and I make no claim that it is the only help or even a necessary condition for forgiveness - is sincere repentance on the part of the wrongdoer. When I am wronged by another, a great part of the injury - over and above any physical harm I may suffer - is the insulting or degrading message that has been given to me by the wrongdoer: the message that I am less worthy than he is, so unworthy that he may use me merely as a means or object in service to his desires and projects.

Muse - Enigmatic Evolution

They Served...reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken...

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Alan Paton - Too Late the Phalarope

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Justin Madson - Breathers

One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""...Is your friend dying?""...Yes honey, he is.""That's sad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Nikki Rowe -

I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward.

Sharon Weil - and Awakeners Navigate Change

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

Fran Sandham - Traversa

And new physical problems are arising almost daily. I'm getting problems from a painful trapped nerve in my shoulder, where my rucksack strap has been pinching it, and I can't straighten my arm above shoulder level - soon I will be limping like Richard III. By now my back is covered with eczema, the result of a perpetually sodden shirt and rucksack pressed against it day after day in this heat. In one place my pack has rubbed a painful hole in my skin through the eczema; carrying my rucksack was

Nikki Rowe -

Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us.

rainbowbrook - Kissing Is the Easy Part

Don't worry, Sean. You're still hot even in the hospital gown," Sandra said."Don't lie out of pity, Sandy. No one can look hot in these," Flora scolded. A gleam came to life in her hazel eyes. "Wait, are these the type that opens in the back? In that case would you get up and close the blinds over there for us?

Elizabeth C. Bunce - A Curse Dark as Gold

Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.

Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth

You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh

Winston Groom - Forrest Gump

I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, 'Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.