Wounded Quotations

I'm coming out of the belly of Iran. It was the only place I was free. It's funny - when I say that, everyone is like, 'What? Freedom?' But the freedom I felt in Iran I've never felt anywhere else. Freedom of mind, freedom of time, of spirit. But after a while, you're so wounded that if you continue thinking about Iran, it will kill you.

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

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.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.

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

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The point of this (exhibit) is to be a vigil or a memorial for those who have lost their lives or have been wounded in the war, but not a protest. We want to try to reach out to people who might be against protests because they've lost family or friends in Iraq.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

We had 12 people show up on a medevac chopper that were anywhere from walking wounded to critical condition,

We're going to have people in the woods during the hunt looking for wounded bears.

We're a wounded dog backed in the corner right now. We're going to come out fighting. We've got some guys down, but you step in and you play as good or better.

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

We have received six wounded people from the bombing and they say that three civilians ... had died,

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

One wounded president goes to visit another wounded president.

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

Maybe a wounded bear is the hungriest bear. We have to come out and act like we're the wounded bear - like we're hungry and like we want it. If we do that opening night, that will show.

No. I don't know how to get in touch with them now. I do know that some of them were wounded in the same battle.

Police returned fire and wounded one suspect and arrested two others. About two and half kilometers from the scene police arrested 14 other suspects. Three other suspects escaped on foot and police believe they might have been wounded.

Nearly every artifact has a story connected to it, whether it be a hole in a helmet or a belt that a medic carried around with him as he treated the wounded on the beach.

I don't have a whole lot to say about this one. That was a team that was hungry. . . . Sometimes, the wounded animals are the most dangerous.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and fight with you again

I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

I feel the pain of the family and I wish that the wounded will heal, ... Israel will not yield and will continue fighting terror until it is destroyed just like we are fighting it now.

I found them both to be courageous, deeply wounded people. They're both still suffering from the injuries. Will said this is a testament not to the evil, but to the good that we as human beings are capable of. That's important. That's healing.

We've been the walking wounded since the beginning of the season.

I think anybody who has killed two and wounded two is certainly to be considered dangerous at any given moment,

It is not too late. The wounded will need long term care, and the hospitals' stocks are quick to run out.

I think that the wide swings in the market created a lot of pain. We have a lot of walking wounded among portfolio holders. And many institutional types decided to purge problem stocks from their portfolios as a result of the drop we saw earlier in the week. We're really in a week this week that could go in either direction, and again those four variables, the four E's, could affect that.

Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade, ... The explosion set fire to the vehicle.

I was wounded myself. I lost all the officers in my company,

People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people.

Our focus right now is to get the civilians who are wounded treated as quickly as possible,

Our commitment to caring for our wounded service members returning from Iraq, as well as our other beneficiaries, remains unwavering. Bethesda's role in supporting the staffing of the hospital ship only once again shows the dedication and flexibility of the hospital's Navy personnel, ... We will keep our promise to our patients here to continue providing the best health care for our Nation's past, present, and future heroes. We just ask that both patients and staff remain understanding during this time of national crisis.

That basically ended his combat career. Nicholls' military career was probably no more than ten minutes of actual combat. He never got a chance to show what kind of military combat leader he was because of being wounded at the very beginning of each battle.

My mother wanted desperately to contribute to the war effort, ... Her brother was a pilot. And so she drew, she painted, she worked for the Red Cross, she was a recreational therapist with wounded soldiers, whatever she could do.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in Albany has a strong interest in promoting public awareness of the Wounded Warrior Project so these brave men and women receive all of the assistance needed to resume their lives.

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

When you see something like that, you being to ask yourself: What is our responsibility, as a community? What things can we do to help those wounded in battle?

When you're playing against teams who are wounded bears or desperate, they're looking for a reason to play and when you give them a reason, they keep going.

When a soldier is wounded, the family is wounded as well.

We're like a wounded dog back in the corner. We're going to come out fighting.

To use Apache helicopters to fire missiles at civilian quarters, that's a violation of international law. To destroy homes over its inhabitants, that's a violation of international law. Not to allow humanitarian aid for 14 days to arrive to wounded people, that is a violation of international humanitarian law,

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven't gotten to.

We condemn attacks against innocent civilians. We express our sympathies with those wounded and the families of those killed.

There are 1,000 to 2,000 significantly wounded that need surgical treatment. Nobody knows how many are up on the slopes.

Films don't change the world, but they can make people talk. And they can make you look at the world with fresh eyes. This movie provides a credible, authentic portrait of that day, and it allows us to draw some wisdom from it. Wherever you sit politically, we are all in that same stage of being wounded and trying to figure what to do next. Those people on United 93 had the courage to confront what we're all dealing with. The question is, do we?

We've had a few wounded ducks during this period, but never threw in the towel. To have this kind of streak is a tribute to the crew for knowing how to react both quickly and efficiently when repair work needs to get done.

We had a large amount of casualties. Ten were wounded right away, and there were three fatal wounds.

We want to nip it in the bud. The inaccuracy of someone hunting through a computer would lead to animals being wounded and suffering.

We were like a wounded animal up there. They had us backed in a corner, and sometimes that's dangerous. The guys took it on, and we've got great veteran leadership. You let those guys take over.

We have experienced all too often that our wounded troops suffering from severe head trauma have had to be flown to hospitals such as Brook Army Medical Center in Texas to receive specialized head and brain trauma treatment. We are proposing the privately funded construction and donation of a specialized brain trauma unit on the west coast at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California. The Freedom Is Not Free Foundation has garnered massive support from the civilian and corporate communities for such a site and we will be presenting our proposal for a Private Sector/Government funded partnership to make sure this project comes to fruition.

Every soldier I talked to said, 'Don't pull out. Do not make it so those who have been wounded and those who have died have done so in vain. We know we can take care of this cause. We got to finish this,'

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.

And we took the term 'impact player' from the sports field and moved it into the sports and military field. And it's to honor our wounded heroes and connect them with heroes from the sports world.

There's no question that the LMDC has been deeply wounded here,

The scenario of New Orleans is you have wounded people helping wounded people.

The saying goes that men wounded in the battlefield call out for their mothers. So spending on Mom will generally surpass that for Dad despite the aberration this year.

I've observed the seal hunt at close range for seven years. I've routinely witnessed conscious seals dragged across the ice with boat hooks, wounded seals left to choke on their own blood, and seals being skinned alive. The commercial seal hunt is inherently cruel, it is a national disgrace.

I've observed the seal hunt at close range for seven years. I routinely witness conscious seals dragged across the ice with boathooks, wounded seals left to choke on their own blood and seals being skinned alive.

These protests have a profound effect on the morale and the emotional well being of the soldiers, many of whom are fresh from battle and still carry the psychological scars from seeing their comrades killed and wounded right next to them.

Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life,

After 1,700 deaths, over 12,000 wounded and $200 billion spent, we believe it is time to have this debate and this discussion on this resolution.

As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion's worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A wounded cat is an extremely dangerous cat.

You're disappointed when you lose 4-0, but if you consider the position we were in with our roster and all the situations that have happened in the past couple days, I thought we played a pretty tight game. We just have to regroup and hopefully get our walking wounded back.

This is a wounded president right now. He doesn't have public opinion at his back. He can't ask too much of Congress because they are already worried about their own re-election.