Quotes on the topic: Wounded


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A wounded deer leaps the highest.


She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.


The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.


You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.


I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.


I have a thing for working with wounded characters.


Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.


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


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


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


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


You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.


When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.


My inner child is not wounded.


Canadians are so easily wounded.