The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
General Douglas MacArthur
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Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
Randy K. Milholland
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
Real Live Preacher
If anything, the scandals have made me want to become a priest even more. It would bring me great joy to be a priest and help heal the wounds that the priesthood is suffering.
Dan Dematte
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
Sean O'Casey
Last Monday, a tragic series of errors, negligence and accidents suddenly cast us into darkness, tears, wounds and mourning.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott
We emerged to find an alien landscape. We bound our wounds, we buried our dead, and we commenced to rebuild.
Gary Michiels
Strong economic figures will surely highlight expectations of further Fed rate increases, boosting the dollar. The dollar is just licking its wounds from the recent decline, but it will bounce back very soon.
Tetsuhisa Hayashi
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.
Agatha Christie
They weren't found inside his house. They were found two or three houses down with my car into a tree, with two gunshot wounds to the head.
Catherin Curns
Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in the hearts of women and time will never heal them.
Brian Harris
I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever ... childhood wounds were left.
Patti Davis
The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.Life and love go on, let the music play.
Johnny Cash
They say time heals all wounds ...
Donna Norris
We came back licking our wounds.
John Fotenos
Several of the victims have suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the infant appears to have been strangled.
Vernon Keenan
In your area, Charlotte Harbor, we see a lot of animals that have wounds and scars from entanglement with fishing line. Some may have been caused by being in areas where people were feeding them.
Nelio Barros
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson
He gets treated in a whirlpool. They remove the scabs and treat the wounds until they can begin the skin grafting process. My sister is a nurse. She's taking care of the wounds here.
Frank Levier Sr
It's bittersweet, because we are still grieving for Tom, and it's so fresh that it opens wounds a little bit. But that doesn't take away from our joy that the other three men have been released and are safe.
Anne Bacon
At that time, Attleboro Police also got a call from Sturdy Memorial Hospital about a man in the emergency room with stab wounds.
Christopher Reed
Time wounds all heels.
Jane Sherwood Ace
[The salt in the wounds for the industry: Short-haul flights tend to command higher fares.] There's a lot of business travel in short haul, ... That certainly hurt us.
John Heimlich
My goal is for us to clear $10,000 on it, ... If we can clear $10,000, I'll be quite happy. We can lick our wounds and get ready for next year.
David Todd
Momentum is everything in every sport. And it just really showed up for us today. We were excited after the bars, instead of licking our wounds and being upset.
Jerry Reighard
As soon as we got them, we lost a few right away for their wounds were just too great, ... But out of 12 people that night, we saved nine.
Dr. Jim Graham
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse tung
There should be a much more fluid and positive relationship in all fields, ... I think that to a certain extent the wounds have healed, but it is important to deal with this subject which was a cause of confrontation between us for so many years.
Carlos Menem
Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable to diabetes, vascular disease and many of the other conditions that lead to chronic wounds.
James Patrick
This dog stayed with it the whole time, trying to lick its wounds.
Gary Olsen
The body was recovered this afternoon and the woman had multiple stab wounds. She had a second marriage and her husband works in Hyderabad. Someone might have taken advantage of her being alone at home.
Anil Shukla
It really just shocked the hell out of me. I'm sitting here wondering how could I not have known and how could I not have helped him. We just never discussed these old kinds of wounds.
Nikki Symington
As happy as I am for the Hawkins family, this brings back a lot of wounds from the Bardsley search, ... My deepest sympathies still go out to them, and it's hard to talk about that, quite frankly.
David Edmunds
We've got one more game left. We have to lick our wounds and hopefully end the season on a winning note, ... Hopefully the kids won't pack it in and I don't think they will. We have a ways to go to play in the same league as CBA and so does everybody else. They've blown everybody out this year. We just have to gather ourselves and see what happens next week.
Mike Davis
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
John Milton
I think you would have to say that Gov. Bush has had a rougher passage to the nomination. McCain stung him badly in New Hampshire and then came back from the South Carolina to win again in Michigan ... the kind of state that represents a battleground in a general election. Losing to McCain there really did inflict some wounds on Bush.
David Broder
They suffered fatal wounds immediately. It was a quick incident.
Bob Callahan
Our officers worked tirelessly to ensure evidence is preserved and the birds are treated for their wounds, are housed and are properly cared for.
Margo Castorena
We keep sinking our hopes with self-inflicted wounds. Once we eliminate the mental mistakes and blown assignments, we'll start seeing the wins.
Tony Travis
It's heartbreaking, ... Every coach would tell you that they would love to be able to sit back and lick their wounds, but they got Robinson next week and it's not a district for the weak and they are not weak, so I have a feeling they will bounce back and play hard.
Joe Thompson
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose F. Kennedy
[Flinn said she has learned her lesson the hard way:] I've lost my innocence, and I've lost my ability to trust people in general and anyone and anything, ... In time, I guess, those wounds will heal, but right now that's where I am.
Kelly Flinn
We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could run topically on wounds, say diabetic ulcer wound.
Mark Merchant
Bird flu is like rubbing salt into the wounds. There have not been cancellations but there is a slowdown in bookings.
Oktay Varlier
Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.
Tom Hayden
No other wounds (except for her missing private parts) could be found on her body, so we are waiting for the autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Superintendent Abie Khoabane
He (the driver) was able to get out of his vehicle (but) I think the gunshot wounds that he received in the car were fatal.
Mike Peters
Given the historic skepticism of blacks toward Republicans, coupled with the current wounds, there is no easy fix for the president. We're hearing a lot of general charges by blacks that `He's a racist,' implying that `racist' and `conservative' are the same thing.
Harry Jackson
The first call came from the National Guard in King of Prussia. They said my son had been injured; that his wounds were not life threatening, and that four other guys had been killed.
Sharon Hill
It was Bill Clinton who opened up and had the vision for moving ahead rather aggressively with our relationship with Vietnam, when in many senses it may not have been to any political advantage of his, ... He saw this as an opportunity for America to heal wounds and to build bridges.
Pete Peterson
The psychological wounds can be much more destructive.
Martin Meehan
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln
It changes everybody's lives. Tyrone will go on and hopefully win the All-Ireland while we've got to go back to lick our wounds.
John Mccloskey
[Murtha] is putting himself forward as some combat veteran with serious wounds and he's using that and it's dishonest and it's wrong.
Brandon Bailey
It is Europe's response to the end of the Cold War and an opportunity to heal the wounds of the past, wounds of war and dictatorship.
Guenter Verheugen
These were individually, and certainly collectively, fatal wounds.
Fred Walker
We saw rows of people in a really bad way with suppurating wounds. They need urgent treatment.
Sean Keogh
We do urge people not to go into the water with open wounds. If you do and you don't clean them, an infection could set in a matter of days.
Janice Okubo
Once Howard Dean lost the Iowa primary, there was no licking of wounds; there was no baying at the moon. There was, let's move to another stage now. We've got the right idea here.
Neil Abercrombie
I guess I licked my wounds, so to speak.
Daniel Chopra
In every heart there is a roomA sanctuary safe and strongTo heal the wounds from lovers pastUntil a new one comes along.
Billy Joel
The men are standing facing this direction, most of the wounds are going to be in the upper extremities, occasionally in the lower extremities.
David Colley
The truth is not so potent. But only truth - even the most aching and painful - will allow to purify the wounds of the memory.
Aleksander Kaasniewski
The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other war of its history, including the Second World War. The battle front stretched from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and included also the seven seas.
Richard Weaver
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
She and my wife just wept. They took us out to the cemetery; the majority of his siblings were there and it was a wonderful day with the family. It opened up old wounds, but also brought a closing.
Verilyn Roskam
A little girl was being treated for shrapnel wounds and while she was in her bed a stray bullet hit her and she died instantly.
Alexandre Liebeskind
There is no reason to believe that foul play is involved, ... There were no signs of violence or defensive wounds.
Mike Winters
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
Ricardo Lagos
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. 'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit w.
Ambrose Bierce
Some of them were badly injured and are receiving medical assistance. One asylum-seeker died of wounds.
Jennifer Pagonis
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.
Bell Hooks
Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know when there is going to be a bomb alongside you or even under your vehicle, ... Also, the guns used in combat in Iraq don't create the kind of wounds a street gun might in America. These guns fire at a much higher velocity, creating a lot more damage.
Andrew Friedman
Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.
Douglas Anderson
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
William Lamb Melbourne
We would be wrong to hide our extreme disappointment, and the wounds of that disappointment will not heal easily.
Chris Moller
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advise, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender han.
Henri Nouwen
He did a very, very excellent job here, and we're a Level-1 trauma center, so he regularly dealt with things like gunshot wounds, stabbings, burns, fractures and other serious injuries. He was very focused, very organized, very efficient, and he took a lot of pride and responsibility in caring for his patients.
Joan Mcinerney
It appears he was hit with multiple gunshot wounds.
Commander Jackie Hampton
They were both immediately injured, taken away. They are shrapnel wounds. Both have them to the head.
Martha Raddatz
She also then now has to nurse her baby for at least two years and still heal all those wounds, so she has a difficult road ahead of her.
Maya Rodriguez
We had a large amount of casualties. Ten were wounded right away, and there were three fatal wounds.
Gary Peabody
We just did not play well ... just multiple things, multiple wounds. Best thing about the game is that I don't think we got anybody injured. We got some feelings hurt, but I don't thing anybody got injured.
Dick Vermeil
What this is really showing us is that there potentially is a discretionary part to emergency room visits. We're not talking about gunshot wounds or car accidents but at the level of a really bad cold.
John Brownstein
The two died from wounds inflicted from spears on various parts of their bodies and we have taken their bodies to the area mortuary.
Simon Kiragu
For us it was about the little things. We talk about executing, and we did at times. Our defense was playing lights out. But, we didn't get the points we needed in the first half off all those opportunities. But, our kids showed guts and marched down the field to make it interesting. We just have to lick our wounds and fix our consistency.
Mark Bloom
In the Pearl harbor crisis, there was a wholly American, selfless response, down to how the nurses dealt with the attack, using their stockings to dress wounds, their lipstick to mark who would live or die. Imagine that. That is what hooked me.
Michael Bay
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. (Elegies).
Sextus Propertius
Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds.
Paul Steidler
On top of all this, bird flu is like rubbing salt into the wounds. There have not been cancellations but there is a slowdown in bookings.
Oktay Varlier
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
Joan Borysenko
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
Allen Boyd
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes
The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The issue is the insensitivity to the victims. We're not taking a stand pro or con on capital punishment, but we felt these ads were inappropriate; they open a lot of old wounds. Sears firmly felt that this kind of a campaign was not consistent with what Sears stands for.
Tom Nicholson
Rose Jones and Patty (Evans, his wife) make this office run. Rose does it all, from patching up wounds to offering advice. Her and Patty run the show.
Gary Evans
The wounds from the East Timor crisis are still very apparent in Indonesia and it's one of the things that makes Papua so sensitive -- the fear that Australia will do an East Timor with Papua, that's why this issue is so damaging.
Greg Fealy
Three people died, two male and one female. They had serious injuries from machete cuts. There were also gunshot wounds.
Abiodun Orebiyi
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille
The verdict will never heal the wounds, ... It's difficult because it reopened old wounds. Not only for myself, but for the entire DEA.
Jose Martinez
I've had patients with knives in their heads, screwdrivers in their heads, lawn darts, small-caliber gunshot wounds to the head, where patients have been awake and talking. The question is how important is the area that is damaged?
Dr. Jonathan Greenberg
Given the president's gaping political wounds from Katrina, you're seeing the federal government weighing in with overwhelming force and supplies. The system is energized this time.
Craig Marks
It was your typical playoff game. We'd love to be up 1-0, but oh well. We lick our wounds and come back (Saturday).
Chris Gignac
There were three stab wounds from the back that went through the front of.
Andrew Carter
The entire top layer of skin is just gone in so many places that the concern is infection setting into those wounds.
Jonnie England
It's gonna take us a weak to lick our wounds and heal if possible, but we'll be ready. Nobody is gonna play us harder or beat us up more than what we've already experienced.
Steve Ketchum
I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds.
Eric Clapton
Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity of all pities that those who lead never learn, and the few wise men among those who follow never quite avail to teach. But faith given and allegiance pledged are stronger than fear ...
Ellis Peters
They wanted closure. This obviously opened a lot of old wounds.
Fred Davis
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