Wounded Quotes

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

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

Canadians are so easily wounded.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

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.

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.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

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.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.