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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. -- R. W. Apple
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. -- R. W. Apple
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Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.I carry from my mother's wombA fanatic heart. -- W.B. Yeats
Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. -- William Butler Yeats
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on. -- Hanoi Hannah
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. -- Ada Cambridge
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week. -- Adrian McKinty
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job. -- Bruce Sterling
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The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth. -- Jeanette Winterson
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism. -- Catherine the Great
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. -- John Henry Jowett
Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce. -- Steven Pressfield
When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over. -- Heather Mills
Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land. -- Susan Abulhawa
You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot. -- Eartha Kitt
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands. -- Pam Grier
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way. -- Aberjhani
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. -- Oscar Wilde
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Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ... -- Fannie Hurst
The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings. -- John Carlos
If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect. -- Plutarch
Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company? -- Tommy Douglas
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much. -- Peter Drucker
And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. -- Charles Dickens
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. -- Philip K. Dick

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