Quotes and Sayings about Injury
"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Injury)
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Injury, Revenge)
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Injury, Sense)
"Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury."
- Tracy Austin
(Related: Injury, Years)
"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Argument, Injury, Silence)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Fear, Free speech, Injury, Oppression, Witches)
"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Injury, Opinion, Question, Self)
"I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Strength, First, Injury, Problems)
"I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes."
- Bill Buckner
(Related: Help, Injury, Will)
"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Desire, Injury, Will)
"In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Time, God, Action, Injury, Respect, Worship, Wrong)
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Soul, Injury, Revenge)
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Injury, Insult)
"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: People, Injury, Insult, Nothing)
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Men, Decency, Giving, Injury, Justice)
"A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice."
- Sasha Cohen
(Related: Exercise, Help, Injury, Order)
"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Home, Injury, Violence)
"Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Dancing, Injury, Problems, Will)
"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury."
- George Eliot
(Related: Hatred, Injury, Sense, Will)
"We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury."
- Andrew von Eschenbach
(Related: Health, Cause, Illness, Injury, Public, Will)
"I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to."
- Guy Forget
(Related: Day, Injury, Practice)
"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."
- Abe Fortas
(Related: Life, Injury, Journalism)
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Forget, Injury, May, Will)
"I appreciate very much being injury-free."
- Steffi Graf
(Related: Being, Injury)
"No, I had a back injury early on in my life."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Life, Injury)
"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
(Related: Employees, Tax, Injury)
"To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him."
- Henry James
(Related: Being, Injury)
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: God, Gods, Injury)
"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
- Andrew Johnson
(Related: Injury, Interest, Legislation, Welfare)
"Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?"
- Frank Lautenberg
(Related: Death, Actions, Injury)
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Men, Injury, Man, Vengeance)
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Injury, Man, Vengeance)
"Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs."
- Lee Majors
(Related: Thought, Feeling, Injury)
"It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me."
- Barbara Mandrell
(Related: Family, Injury)
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Actions, Cause, Evil, Inaction, Injury, May)
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Lie, Injury, Lying)
"Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions."
- Vic Morrow
(Related: War, Work, Accident, Flowers, Injury, Job, Years)
"I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching."
- Edwin Moses
(Related: Injury, Preparation, Problems)
"This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses."
- Bob Ney
(Related: Help, Hurt, Injury, Lawyers, Legislation, Will)
"In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product."
- Bob Ney
(Related: Food, Legal, Injury, Lawyers, Years)
"Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues."
- Sandra Day O'Connor
(Related: Injury, Nations, Precedents)
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
- Alan Paton
(Related: Deep, Injury)
"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense."
- Ron Paul
(Related: Death, Bizarre, Cause, Injury, Liberty, Risk, Sense)
"The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance."
- Steve Perry
(Related: Fear, Injury, Man, Vengeance)
"Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Medical, Americans, Cure, Disease, Injury, Therapy)
"I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge."
- Robert Purvis
(Related: Injury, Insult)
"In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit."
- Jamie Redknapp
(Related: Injury, Past)
"We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them."
- Christopher Reeve
(Related: Time, Community, Day, Disease, Injury, Trials, Vocabulary, Will, Words)
"I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition."
- Claudio Reyna
(Related: Chance, Competition, Injury, Play, Want)
"My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Goals, Injury)
"The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery."
- Greg Rusedski
(Related: Fear, Fighting, Injury, World)
"I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36."
- Graeme Le Saux
(Related: Fitness, Career, Injury)
"As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Americans, Injury, Numbers)
"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: Peace, Time, War, Injury, Law, Nations)
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Anger, Injury)
"Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Heart, Forget, Hatred, Injury)
"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Injury)
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
- Socrates
(Related: Evil, Injury, Injustice, Man, Right)
"There is a point at which even justice does injury."
- Sophocles
(Related: Injury, Justice)
"I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder."
- Scott Speedman
(Related: Injury)
"Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate."
- Elvis Stojko
(Related: Injury, Years)
"Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery."
- Trish Stratus
(Related: Injury)
"They do injury to the good who spares the bad."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Injury)
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
- Thomas Szasz
(Related: Act, Children, Injury, Learning, Self)
"We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation."
- Fred Thompson
(Related: Injury, Name, Water)
"Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy."
- Robert Toombs
(Related: Government, Injury, Interest)
"To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury."
- Benjamin Tucker
(Related: Force, Injury, Insult, Liberty, Man)
"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Art, Peace, Control, Aggression, Injury)
"The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running."
- Grete Waitz
(Related: Injury, Running, Stress)
"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."
- Booker T. Washington
(Related: Life, Injury, Race, Will, Youth)
"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
(Related: People, Harm, Injury, Loss, Morals)
"John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue."
- Bradley Whitford
(Related: Injury, Past, Want)
"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."
- Frances Wright
(Related: Injury, Liberty, Tyranny)
"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
- Xenophon
(Related: Excess, Grief, Injury, Living, Madness)
"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
- Xun Zi
(Related: Death, Food, Strength, Bravery, Injury, Numbers, Right, Shame, Trying, Wrong)