“ Her fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks. They prod and pinch the air, leaving it bruised and beaten. ”
- Colin McDowell- Copy
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“ In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, the true neighbor will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there. ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
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“ The Constitution is a fragile document. Today it has been bruised if not broken. ”
- Oscar B. Goodman- Copy
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“ Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, an herb most bruised is woman. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. ”
- Audre Lorde- Copy
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“ Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. ”
- Anne Bradstreet- Copy
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“ The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. ”
- Dorothy Sayers- Copy
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“ A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Many of us unconciously create drama in our minds, expecting the worst from a situation only to have our expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Inadvertantly we become authors of our own misfortune. And so we struggle from day to day, from crisis to crisis, bruised and battered by circumstances without realizing that we always have a choice… What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings?…Suspend your disbelief… ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
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“ There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 354
“ Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy… ”
- Joseph Brant- Copy
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“ It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. ”
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer- Copy
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“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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