#inflict

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. ↗

— John Mayer

#accidents #days #head #i #mistakes

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#celebrate #closer #exact #fact #fascinated

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#answer #class #cliff #courage #crisis

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#always #appeared #cannot #done #express

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#cork #dangers #district #here #inflict

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #football #football player #i #inflict

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#arbitrary #chance #inflicted #nature #never

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#could #country #damage #done #far

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination. ↗

— Valerie Martin

#pain #self-inflicted-pain #imagination

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#god #himself #inflicted #kill #life