A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.
Ramman Kenoun

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
Roald Dahl

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
Janet Malcolm

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.
William Devane

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy Buffett

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
Catharine Beecher

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.
Delta Burke

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Peace Pilgrim

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
Courtney Love

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.
Susie Bright

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Darrell Royal

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
Gregg Allman

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.
Mohammed Omar