Honore de Balzac Quotes
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
Quotes to Explore
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Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.
B. R. Hayden
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan Paton
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
Nalini Singh
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Oscar Wilde
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Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
Marge Piercy
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.
Marianne Williamson
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
Yasmin Mogahed
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Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.
Pete Wilson
