It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.

Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?

Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Until we really heal the wounds that we dealt with during slavery, I don't think we'll be a fully realized country.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

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

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

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