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Quotes About Injury

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.
~ Karin Slaughter
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
~ James Russell Lowell
...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
~ Tacitus
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
~ C. S. Lewis
It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.
~ George Woolf
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.
~ Mencius
The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.
~ James Thomas Fields
I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
~ Bob Hope
I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.
~ Emily Blunt
When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
~ George R. R. Martin
Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.
~ George R. R. Martin
No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.
~ Lysander Spooner
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
~ Martin Luther
The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there
~ Patricia A. McKillip
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
~ Publilius Syrus
I know a guy who had his doctor say, "Take some weight off, go to a health club." The man lost 20 pounds in one week! The machine tore his leg off!
~ Henny Youngman
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
Man has injured every animal he has touched.
~ John Muir
Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don't leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.
~ James Patterson
It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.
~ Ray Rice
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.
~ Courtney Kupets