Quotes with wounded

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  • William Cowper A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Erik H. Erikson Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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  • Paul Auster I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bob Dylan I met one man who was wounded in love. I met another man who was wounded with hatred.
    Source: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Woody Allen I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is 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
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart 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
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • J. C. Macaulay Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • Robert South Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Bertolt Brecht On golden chairs
    Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted
    To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears
    And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Song of the cut-price poets [Lied der preiswerten
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Jean Anouilh 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
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Santayana The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • John F. Kennedy There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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