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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.
Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?
Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.
I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.
I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
Until we really heal the wounds that we dealt with during slavery, I don't think we'll be a fully realized country.
Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.
Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
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.
We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.
Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.
We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.
While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.
I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.
Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.
I fall to pieces when I am hurt, but when it comes to my children, I am a pillar of strength, applying balm and bandages and dressing up their wounds.
I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.