#injury

I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#cyd-charisse #drugs #gingerbread #high #humour

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ↗

— Jane Austen

#forgiveness #injury #mortification #pride #forgiveness

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering. ↗

— Albert Borris

#self-harm #self-injury #suicide #suicide

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#cares #expensive #good #had #injury

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#had #i #injury #running #stress

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

#deer #harm #herds #injury #large

No, I had a back injury early on in my life. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#early #had #i #injury #life

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#because #businesses #buy #case #cost

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#decency #doing #giving #injury #justice