Impair Quotes

#1. Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

Francis Galton

#2. God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and denied
That our close kisses should impair their white,
I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
New Memnons singing in the great God-light.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#3. When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.

Seth Klarman

#4. Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.

Billy Graham

#5. Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Mimi Kennedy

#6. If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

John Dingell

#7. SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change - like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, can in some respects impair our judgment as much as being legally drunk. (There's something wonderfully vindicating about this analogy.)

Jennifer Senior

#8. If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.

John Taylor

#9. Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

#11. Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young. ("Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?" [1954], Y 196)

S.T. Joshi

#12. In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth ... Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

Andre Malraux

#13. And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him ... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.

Theodore Schultz

#14. I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

Ellen Page

#15. I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Anthony Burgess

#16. If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. It is a fact - I say this from experience - that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.

Scott Stossel

#18. Alcohol is a metabolism monkey wrench. It can also impair muscle growth for up to five days after consumption.

Skye St. John

#19. Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

Ovid

#20. I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Jeanette MacDonald

#21. The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

Miguel De Cervantes

#22. Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

Susan Cain

#23. The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed "to try the President's strength or impair his good temper." At one o'clock, Roosevelt

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#24. Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean De La Bruyere

#25. People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

Patricia Briggs

#26. On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#27. We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

Alan Greenspan

#28. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#29. We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Okky Madasari

#30. He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Francis Bacon

#31. Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

James Lee Burke

#32. But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

Anatole France

#33. A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

Henry Parry Liddon

#34. Blind people are just like seeing people in the dark. The loss of sight does not impair the qualities of mind and heart.

Helen Keller