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Quotes About Injury

It is best to keep a substitution open for the final 15 minutes, as you never know if you are going to lose someone to injury and be left with 10 men.
~ Filippo Inzaghi
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not
~ Turkish proverb
Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.
~ Unknown
Na, I don't think we need to go to the hospital.
~ Unknown
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.
~ Unknown
The famous law of punishment, "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" (Exodus 21:24), embodies the same principle in a specific juridical context. It was never intended as an excuse for personal vengeance but as a directive to judges making decisions regarding penalties in cases of injury (Exodus 21:22-25).
~ Unknown
The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.
~ Chevy Chase
I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
~ Jo Brand
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
~ Patricia Highsmith
And then Lucinda was like an athlete who, with her body warm, has ripped a muscle and not felt it. As she cooled, she stiffened, and felt-it hurt more than you would think possible-the damage.
~ Peter Carey
he was literally holding his face together.
~ Peter David
I DO NOT hear them, but I know they are near. The creatures. The men. They hunt me through the rocks and jungle trees. I must move, but I cannot. I fear my ankle is broken. If I stay, they will flush me out of this hiding place. When they are through with Father, they will come for me. I pray they spare him. It is I whom they seek.
~ Peter Lerangis
Though a few older men cut fingers in time of grief, it is usually the smallest girls who are selected for this ceremony, and a woman in the valley whose left hand is not a stump is very rare.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Shock, and loss of blood.
~ Philip K. Dick
ahimsa, often translated as non-violence. More accurately it means non-harming, having an attitude of mind that does not wish injury to any creature, not merely for human beings, but for plants, animals and the entire natural order. For it to be complete, ahimsa must extend not only to action but also to speech and to thought. Ahimsa is the most important observance in the practice of yoga and the basis for mental peace, which is not possible if we harbor thoughts of harm for others.
~ David Frawley
But neither disdain nor the trappings of woe could injure her beauty, as she had done all she could to enhance it for this special occasion.
~ Unknown
Her: So how was your trip in? You: Well, I was originally going to fly, but then this tiger offered to carry me very gently in her mouth. I said OK, but you know what? She wasn't gentle at all. One of her teeth pierced my small intestine, so now, on top of everything else, I have to shit in a bag every day for the rest of my life! Her: Well, that is just awesome. We're all so glad you made it.
~ David Sedaris
Then I met a woman named Janine who was bitten and had to spend a week in the hospital. "It was completely my own fault," she said. "I shouldn't have been wearing sandals." "It didn't have to strike you," I reminded her. "It could have just slid away." Janine was the type who'd likely blame herself for getting mugged. "It's what I get for having anything worth taking!" she'd probably say.
~ David Sedaris
Do you know you're bleeding? he asked. I had a suspicion. That looks nasty. My apologies. What happened to your forehead? A fork. A fork? Yes, sir. I wish I'd been eating with a spoon. You stabbed yourself with a fork? It flipped. Flipped? The fork. A flipped fork? It flicked my forehead. Pausing in the counting of my change, he gave me a narrow look. That's right, I said. A flipped fork flicked my forehead.
~ Dean Koontz
They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.
~ Joe Thomas
I played with high ankle sprains.
~ Amari Cooper
You never want to see anybody get hurt... but if you've ever played basketball before you've probably sprained your ankle so that stuff happens. It's part of the game.
~ Joe Harris
My ankle is giving me a lot of problems.
~ Justin Gatlin