Quotes about Wounding

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius

I like to get into a situation that is real, where I can say, 'Here's a chance to react as a human being, not some wound-up doll or robot that goes round and round a track, or a cardboard cut-out like the character I played in 'The Towering Inferno'.

William M. Holden

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

William Hazlitt

He was stripped on the top of the joint behind the hock, ... It could have been nasty but fortunately the wound wasn't too deep.

Doug Harrison

With a single depression fracture at the back of the head, we believed that the only animal capable of inflicting a wound like this was a raptor but we could not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Dr Lee Berger

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Thomas Willis

She wrestled like we thought she could. And we got her wound up enough to get excited. She's a pretty mellow kid and she wrestled very aggressive.

Kerry Benthin

After a long discussion with Mr. Holmes, we finally wound up with, I think, an agreement which will satisfy all parties.

Don Gibson

The more someone persists in their innocence, the larger the wound gets in the community. You can't heal in a case like this when the finger is in the wound at the heart of the community ? the way the knife was in the victim.

Andrew Fox

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

He'd talk about the referendum (scheduled for Oct. 15), reconstruction projects, sewer projects, you name it, ... We wound up in the Iraqi version of Starbucks, drinking chai with locals. It was easily the most interesting raid I've ever been on.

Steve Warren

The problems that have occurred from these laser procedures are related to physicians not understanding lasers, ... Either the treatment is too aggressive, there is poor post-operative care or there's something that extends the wound deeper -- an allergic reaction or infection.

Richard Fitzpatrick

[Selling or spinning off the business,] would be a Band-Aid on an open flesh wound, ... The stock would move higher in the short term but the company would regret it three to five years from now. They just need to focus on how to make money from their existing subscriber base.

Matt Kelmon

It's hard for people to understand what happened to me, how my dream was shattered, ... It hurts a lot, and it's a wound that's going to take some time to heal. It's frustrating because you know this is what you like to do. But sometimes, you need time to think things out, recharge your batteries and start all over.

Fc Dallas

You can't expect any return phone calls. I think the wound has been opened, and salt has been poured into it from all the media. The Times has to prove themselves to these three people.

Phyllis Grae

The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.

James Seals

Until this open wound is cauterized and healed, European public opinion will stay where it is.

Ron Asmus

Workers don't want to give up what they've earned in terms of health-care coverage. It's sort of the deepest wound you can cut.

Robert Bruno

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman

This is a nightmare, and I am not against this development, but there is a right way and a wrong way. To put another development here without looking at traffic calming measurements would be ridiculous; to add insult to an open wound is being irresponsible.

Kevin Finn

The findings from both studies indicate that the effect of exercise we found in the current study truly represents an enhanced rate of wound healing in older adults.

Charles Emery

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

Olive Schreiner

We were fortunate that we had 140 (singers and dancers) audition. We called back 60 and we wound up with 35. That's a lot of people, and a lot of dancers.

Mark Swezey

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.

John Sutter

We realized people were moving to club stores and retailers that offer consistent, low prices so we did it too. We wound up saving money because we didn't have the cost of setting up and taking down the end caps for the sales.

Jo Natale

One inmate has a slash wound that goes from his ear all the way over to his mouth. It appears he was attacked by a razor blade attached to a toothbrush or a comb.

Vernell Crittendon

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson

There were four Pan Am families that were based in Berlin, Germany. We were on the same crew there in 1970 - we all started skiing in Europe and we all wound up moving to Incline, supposedly to ski for a few years - but we lived here ever since.

Jim Mcconnell

We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control.

Joe Camp

There have been only two people I have written a letter to in my life and he's one of them. It was during a time when he was getting crucified and I wound it up by saying, `If there was ever a guy I want to be in a foxhole with, who I know would have my back, it would be you.' Anyone who knows Jerry feels the same way.

Ken Harrelson

They started out saying they were protecting the town from criminals, and they wound up extorting money from people.

Victor Soto

Baseball can be an unfair game. Bowman made all sorts of plays, but the last one is the one people probably will remember. We didn't play well, and Wingate was a lot more ready to play than we were. We just wound up scoring more runs.

Jim Gantt

On the last day, I wound up doing everything from carting flowers into the house to directing traffic.

Walter Gossett

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Dave Winfield

The juniors have had a lot of playing time. We wound up with just one senior last year (during a 12-13 campaign).

Jerry Myers

It was a single gunshot wound to the head and neck by another.

David Campbell

We also see the same health problems you would see in any hospital setting -- cardiac patients, diabetes, kidney and pulmonary problems and occasionally a gunshot wound.

Scott Warner

We've definitely been taught to what I call 'aspirate the wound,'.

Diane Farr

[Silver trays of macaroni lobster balls, mini pizzas, and spring rolls were passed around, and the talk wound back to those other Citizens.] Their jeans really fit girls with curves because they have ample butt room, ... There just aren't many jeans that fit when you're 5-foot-2. I still have to have them hemmed, but I love them.

Debi Mazar

At the end of the day we wound up with five options, none of which had any recommendations with them. It was multiple-choice questions like on a menu. None of them seemed to have any consensus that this will actually fix something.

Alderman Dana Mclendon

It was good to get two wins, no matter how they wound up looking like at the end. We've had a string of games where we've just not gotten the breaks at key times, like the other teams has, so tonight it was good to come away with two wins.

Jim Perrin

North wound up having a strong program last year. And South-you can't get any better than state champions.

Joe Kiefer

I saw him (Robert) standing there, and I knew I had to say something. So I walked over and asked him where the baked beans were. We struck up a conversation, and I wound up inviting him to a dinner party we were having that night.

Diane Raver

He is just like a big diesel train. Once he gets to his top, wound up, he just keeps going. He is all fuelled up and is ready to pull out something special.

Lindsey Smith

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. [The analyst] keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

Janet Malcolm

It turned out just great. It's another example of going with the flow. Each room has something that was a mistake that turned out so much better -- that gives the house so much character. Every place that that happened, I wound up loving it so much more than the original.

Millie Ortiz

As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field to save the patient's life or limb. From there, they are transferred to Germany to help them stabilize, clear the infection and allow the wound to heal a bit.

Andrew Friedman

Delivery of cells on scaffolds that promoted both activation and migration led to extensive repopulation of host muscle tissue and increased the regeneration of muscle fibers at the wound. If we only had one or the other signal - sticky molecules or drugs - we didn't get any significant regeneration.

David Mooney

The energy from radio frequency increases the metabolism in the tissue and stimulates wound repair mechanisms. The suction and massage loosen the bands around the fat deposits that cause skin dimpling, and promote drainage of fluid from the area.

Tina Alster

She wasn't real appreciative and wound up getting angry at me. She said to me sarcastically: 'If you know so much, why don't you show me what I'm doing wrong?' I did, and we've been arguing ever since.

Dan Fichter

The changes have been a tremendous step in the right direction. But ultimately, it's bad policy for the state. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a gushing wound.

Jerry Gonzalez

So I wound up going to the company and getting a two-year leave of absence before I ever spent a day there. James Blanchard was the CEO. He's a member at Augusta National. Every April at the Masters, he asks me when I'm going to report to start work.

Jim Mackay

We are gathered for what is officially a groundbreaking, but the truth is that this hallowed ground has already been broken -- viciously and cruelly, ... So today instead of a groundbreaking, we begin the process of filling the gaping wound left by the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at this site and two others.

Norman Mineta

SES has been arguing that its margins have been depressed because of investments in new services. One would have expected that once those investments in services wound down, there would have been a greater recovery.

Morten Singleton

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness — these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

Frederick W. Robertson

When we continue to pick at the wound and show the pictures over and over again it just creates the image ? a false image ? like this is the sort of stuff that is happening anew, and it's not.

Genjohn Abizaid

I said to myself, 'This is not a survivable wound.'

Robert Grossman

At first I didn't have anyone to block, then Skyler came my way and I tried to give the defender a good hit, and wound up giving myself one, ... I'm cool though; all of us will be back for Tennessee.

Craig Davis

We ran into lots of foundations that we didn't know were there. We found an oil well and wound up pulling a lot of dirty soil out of there, which was more expensive. We had to take it to a special dump, and then get the dirt clean to build on it. So we lost about eight months just getting started on the garage.

Kevin Ratner

A 29-year-old woman was found with a stab wound on her forehead and a 45-year-old woman was found burnt.

Inspector Paul Ramaloko

There was an enormous motorcade, several dozen cars, which then wound its way from the airport through the city where there is still very, very intense anger over the NATO bombing and the deaths that were caused by it.

Mike Chinoy

The man in his 40s contracted the bacteria through a wound on his hand when he was butchering pigs last Thursday.

Yu Yedong

There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live.

John Taylor

To make blanket statements and make blanket indictments, it's not correct. A lot of people were offended by that because we took pride in what we did. ...For him to say something like that is like rubbing salt in an open wound. So for him to apologize is tremendous.

Vincent Wilson

It is a big question mark, but I said that last year and we wound up being not that bad. They look good at practice, and when they get under the lights it may be a different story. We have some kids that have never played before and some sophomores, so it will be pretty interesting.

Robert Kistner

The three charges of malicious wounding were from the injuries she suffered with a hammer.

Kraig Troxell

This small addition of staff is like putting a Band-Aid over a gaping wound.

Laura Haight

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples. O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. Quin.

Ambrose Bierce

When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Jeremy Sumpter

He jumped on his quarter. It took five weeks to close the wound. I've been pointing him for this race.

Bruce Headley

We played eight games in about a 10-day stretch and didn't have a lot of practice time. I think it wound up hurting us some.

Keith Taylor

That?s the entry wound. The exit wound, of course, is on the other side of the roof.

Steve Piltz

He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

Stephen Crane

We had a lot of interest in the job, and I wound up interviewing six people for the position. We just felt that Dee was what we were looking for, and it all kind of happened so fast between the interview and her accepting our offer.

Chico Caldwell

I didn't finish high school. I wound up working for a big paper mill. Then I went to work loading box cars and glass ware.

Clint Walker

The grief sometimes gets so heavy that it's physically hard to breathe. The wound never heals. Little things -- like hearing a certain song on the radio -- just rip the scab right off.

Karla Stauble

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Cato the Elder

The investigation has produced hard evidence of the connection to sound--like seeing a bullet wound, but needing to identify the shooter. In light of today's findings, it's incumbent on navies and on industry to divulge what activities they were conducting in the area.

Michael Jasny

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Ellis Peters

It just came naturally to me. I took one chemistry class (in high school), then I wound up taking another and went on from there. I want to get into medicine. Right now, I have no plans to play football in college.

Zack Samples