#wounded

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#couple #hospital #i #kids #legs

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her... ↗

— Lynn Dove

#gossip #hypocrisy #rejection #religion #shooting-the-wounded

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#always #armor #better #captive #infatuated

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#bitter #central #character #comic #comic relief

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#promised #set #sick #up #wounded

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#bay #died #filthy #hard #i

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. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#attack #been #bombers #had #heard

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#corpus #country #exists #know #now

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#accents #apartment #big #books #had