Damage Done Quotes

#1. I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

Jimmy Carter

#2. One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone ... and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.

Joe Henderson

#4. Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Henry Jenkins

#5. There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

#6. Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Oswald Chambers

#7. The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Camille Paglia

#8. The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force. So the damage done there is not against ISIL. It's against the Syrian regime.

Barack Obama

#9. It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

Tom Wicker

#10. (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Margaret Thatcher

#11. The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe

#12. Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

Casey Stoner

#13. If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.

Suzanne Collins

#14. The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Li Bingbing

#15. Anger, unlike fear or sadness, is a moral emotion. It is "righteous." It aims not only to end the current trespass but to repair any damage done. It also aims to prevent further trespass by disarming, imprisoning, emasculating, or killing the trespasser.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#16. Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion of this or that neurotransmitter? And who will ever find a morality, an ethics down among the enzymes and amino acids when the general taste is for looking in the other direction?

Ian McEwan

#17. The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

Jose Maria Aznar

#18. I have hurt people. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, there was damage done.

John Rocker

#19. It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

Aristotle.

#20. Our friendship just kind of fizzled, like a sparkler burning down to your fingers. By the time you realize you were being burned, it was too late - the damage done, the spark already extinguished.

Megan Miranda

#21. The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness - to the individual himself and to others - and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

Kay Redfield Jamison

#22. Was there much damage done to your ship? (Nykyrian)
No, not really. Just enough to seriously piss me off and ruin my suckass day. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

Peter Kreeft

#24. In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first.

Gudjon Bergmann

#25. I've seen the needle
And the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's
Like a settin' sun.

Neil Young

#26. The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim's relationship with God and rob her of the joy of loving and being loved by others.

Dan B. Allender

#27. A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

Franz Grillparzer

#28. No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.

Albert Houtum-Schindler

#29. It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#30. The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. we can repair ourselves and gain our lost integrity by choosing to look more honestly at the knowledge that is stored inside our bodies and bringing that knowledge closer to our awareness.

Alice Miller

#31. The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#32. Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Freeman Dyson

#33. The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Anthony Storr

#34. Gage appears beneath me. 'Jump, and I'll catch you.'
'No.'
I strengthen my death grip on the trunk of the tree. 'I'm very afraid of heights. I'll need hours of therapy to repair the damage done here today.'

Addison Moore

#35. You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

Susan Howatch

#36. He swallows a soothing mouthful of Jim Beam and rubs at his face, trying to rub away the familiar regret, that he can't take back words that are already history, that have found their mark and already done their damage.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#37. That's the thing about labels - they're bloody sticky! Although the harsh words from classmates stopped years ago, the damage has been done.

Claire Eastham

#38. But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

John Waters

#39. Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.

J.D. Greear

#40. I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years - I think you can allow me that at least.

Rahul Dravid

#41. This whole situation is like a great big zit that needs popping," she continued. "The damage is already done - your face looks like shit and no concealer's gonna cover it. You might as well squeeze hard and get your money shot. You'll both feel better afterward.

Joanna Wylde

#42. An unkind remark is like a killing frost - no matter how much it warms up, the damage is already done.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#43. If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.

Sean Quinn

#44. Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

Gayle Forman

#45. Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Giordano Bruno

#46. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#47. The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

David Wolfe

#48. Was there to be some healing after all?
Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?
Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.

Mary Balogh

#49. I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.

Marco Rubio

#50. There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

Thomas Sowell

#51. When violence touched people, the damage didn't stop once the deed was done. It burrowed into the soul and made itself at home.

Anonymous

#52. The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

Azar Nafisi

#53. Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

Elisabeth Elliot

#54. All magic comes with a price. A price that is never revealed until after the damage has been done.

Morgan Rhodes

#55. It's an enemy that I can't allow to wound me a second time. It's already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface.

Andrea Pirlo

#56. The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

Andrea Gibson

#57. I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

Dave Eggers

#58. How much damage will have been done before we act?

John McCain

#59. A Dilemma with a flat tire was a reminder that no matter how splendid and shiny the world might be, it could be spoiled by something you didn't notice until the damage had been done.

Lemony Snicket

#60. President Obama has done more damage to America than any American has since 1776

Dennis Prager

#61. America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

Viggo Mortensen

#62. We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

Anthony Holden

#63. Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Augusten Burroughs

#64. Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.

Jordan Ghere

#65. No matter how much damage he had done, he hadn't won.

Linda Howard

#66. Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

Erma Bombeck

#67. The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done.
( ... and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)

Asma Naqi

#68. We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

Nhat Hanh

#69. The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Marilyn Manson

#70. And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

Michael Chertoff

#71. Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them, he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

Susanna Kearsley

#72. It is impossible to say how many dinners Drawlight was invited to sit down to that day - and it is fortunate that he was never at any time much of an eater or he might have done some lasting damage to his digestion.

Susanna Clarke

#73. History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Sydney J. Harris

#74. The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.

Ted Cruz

#75. I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion.

Dale Carnegie

#76. I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything hurts.

Brian Dennehy

#77. Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

John Farrington

#78. Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

Geraldo Rivera

#79. Luther once said, "The devil hates goose quills" and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit's blessing, have done his kingdom much damage.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#80. I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.

Frankie Boyle

#81. The loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.

Benjamin Graham

#82. The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.

George Kukla

#83. He walked close enough to hold hands and far enough away that words could never repair the damage we'd done to each other.

Elana Johnson

#84. Americans come out of the comparison rather better. They may overdo emotion, but they are not fearful of it. A surplus of feeling has rarely done as much damage as a deficiency of it.

Terry Eagleton

#85. I want to explain to him that Angela is like a bloodhound when it comes to secrets, virtually impossible to get anything by her, but it doesn't matter. She knows. He knows she knows. Damage is done.

Cynthia Hand

#86. I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.

Mamie Till

#87. This president [Barack Obama] is undermining the constitutional basis of this government. This president is undermining our military. He is undermining our standing in the world ... The damage he has done to America is extraordinary.

Marco Rubio

#88. From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

Michael Palin

#89. The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.

Stacey Kade

#90. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.

Paul Hoffman

#91. Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#92. My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage ...

Meyhem Lauren

#93. The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature.

Dervla Murphy

#94. The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

Richard M. Nixon

#95. The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

Mitch Landrieu

#96. It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a
tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story
to remember innocence, to record effect- and so to describe
the limits, to say what can be done without damage.

Wendell Berry

#97. That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

Scott Westerfeld

#98. Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#99. One of the biggest problems is religion's misuse of the Law. This has done tremendous damage to God's image.

Paul Silway

#100. I felt tired and grainy and not able to tell how much damage had been done to me. I had a leaden feeling that it was more than I really needed.

Stephen King