#wounded

Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal. ↗

— Julie Gold

#any #been #cause #cry #heart

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#draws #either #lying #others #rhetoric

The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form. This is a beauty that has suffered its way through the ache of desolation until the words or music emerged to equal the hunger and desperation at its heart. It must also be said that not all woundedness succeeds in finding its way through to beauty of form. Most woundedness remains hidden, lost inside forgotten silence. Indeed, in every life there is some wound that continues to weep secretly, even after years of attempted healing. Where woundedness can be refined into beauty a wonderful transfiguration takes place. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#transfiguration #woundedness #beauty

One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort. ↗

— Stéphane Audeguy

#efficiency #war #wounded #men

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield. ↗

— Cole Younger

#been #eleven #i #received #these

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#feel #gentle #gentler #hard #home

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#beautiful #dignified #living #living thing #longevity

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#attached #being #bull #days #like

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. ↗

— Keith Miller

#army #book #church #day #i

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#began #iraq #killed #more #nation