Lick Wounds Quotes

#1. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.

Frances Wilson

#3. Live every moment - no matter where you are and what you're doing - as if it were truly important... you must strive to be in a good place - a place of purpose and integrity... Life is short under any circumstance and in some cases it can be plucked away at a moment's notice.

David Elliot Cohen

#4. The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

Warryn Campbell

#5. You can lick your wounds and miss me until you come searching for me ... because you're mine and I'm yours.

Ann Aguirre

#6. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Markus Zusak

#7. Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.

Kenny Guinn

#8. If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward,

Richard Branson

#9. I've learned to lick
my own foul wounds
and prize the taste of ache.

Chila Woychik

#10. Oh, come on. Wouldn't you rather go upstairs and lick your wounds? Maybe make an ice pack for your crotch?

Rachel Vincent

#11. They've kicked our backsides ... we've got to lick our wounds ...

Steve Bruce

#12. Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Agatha Christie

#13. The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.

Richard Webber

#14. Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. It is. I'm your boyfriend now, which
means there's no room for your hipster admirer. He'll just have to lick his wounds while we lick other things.

Kylie Scott

#16. I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.

George Packer

#17. Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.

Kobo Abe

#18. I'm here Bethie. Loving you. Wanting you. I'm not going to run into a hole and lick my wounds. I'm going to bleed in front of you.

Angela Morrison

#19. I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Carol Shields

#20. Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

Galina Nelson

#21. Remember that whenever you were being kicked, there was no one standing beside you to soften the blow. No one there to help you lick those wounds or protect you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

Samantha Hunt

#23. I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.

Lawrence Shepp

#24. Time is endless for a being such as I. Power is the only master I trust." ~Lucifer

Annabell Cadiz

#25. She was like a wounded animal, he thought, looking at her. Fear and pain were in every line of her - in the taut stillness of her form and in her watchful, wary stare. She wanted to be alone, to lick her wounds, and though she'd been that way all along, he couldn't let her stay that way.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#26. The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#27. I'd be doing it to screw the literary world. Those bastards all huddle in their gloomy cave and kiss each other's asses, and lick each other's wounds, and trip each other up, all the while spewing this pompous crap about the mission of literature.

Haruki Murakami

#28. I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.

Taylor Rhodes

#29. Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

Donna Lynn Hope