#bruise

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#ax #bruise #edge #fitter #heavy

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#bruise #clumsy #fell #had #i

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#around #because #blue #bruise #call

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#child #hard #hard words #heart #jacket

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#bruise #ego #false #i #proceed

I bruise like a grape. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#grape #i #like

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ↗

— Washington Irving

#bruised #certain #change #comfort #even

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#before #bruise #client #difficult #face

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing. ↗

— Adam Savage

#anybody #away #blue #blue collar #bruised