#wound

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#self-inflicted #wounds

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#beautiful #dignified #living #living thing #longevity

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#country #credit #deserved #duties #families

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#argument #attack #because #cheer #i

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#consequently #descended #distance #ground #had

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. ↗

— Otto Hermann Kahn

#before #friends #house #liberty #often

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

#brings #dulling #especially #faculty #falling

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

#done #every #every heart #every nation #heal

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#healing #how #important #see #wounds

I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#bob #cheek #ear #entirely #eye