Irreparable Harm Quotes

#1. To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm ... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

Georges Braque

#2. When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

Tammara Webber

#3. I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm.

Richard Riordan

#4. Well, do be careful, my love. Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied.

Gail Carriger

#5. She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.

Marcia Muller

#6. Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

Stanley Kubrick

#7. I live with pain that is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
do me irreparable harm. Your caresses enfold me, like climbing vines on melancholy walls.

Pablo Neruda

#8. Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent - admittedly in my own best interest - on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

Yehuda Berg

#10. True love was a flower in the gut, its petals unfurling inside out. You would risk all for love -- blissful, never without its drops of dismay.

Jessie Burton

#11. I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

Ayn Rand

#12. The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Your family. And there is no stronger bond than that.

Amber Lynn Natusch

#14. I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.

Jennifer Rubin

#15. If it doesn't break your heart
It isn't love
If it doesn't break your heart
It's not enough

Switchfoot

#16. I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

Barry Bonds

#17. Of course I loved you . . . and I knew that it would happen all over again . . . that where I loved, I would cause irreparable damage. I am no fit person to love . . . I have never loved without causing harm.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

Candace Bushnell

#19. I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

Ruby Bentall

#20. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Hunter S. Thompson

#21. Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

Kevin Drew

#22. Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.

Alafair Burke

#23. Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Henri Bergson

#24. We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

Rebecca Goldstein

#25. Shhh, no more talking Em, Ethan whispered.

Christy Pastore