Top 100 Quotes About Damage
#1. Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.
Suzanne Collins
#2. The damage and destruction from the soft brush of pen on paper, a minuscule twitch of muscles at the end of manicured fingers, and people's lives forever altered.
Jason Greensides
#3. There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important.
Stephen King
#4. Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.
Anthony McCarten
#5. If a man's life could be capitalized as X, the risk at Y, and the estimated damage from explosion at V, then a logician might contend that if V is less than X over Y, the bomb should be blown up; but if V over Y is greater than X, an attempt should be made to avoid explosion in situ.
Michael Ondaatje
#6. So, tonight, I want you guys to be thinking about how fragile the world can be. Even today, we're staring down the possible collapse of the post-war international order. Why is it the only one piece out of place can do such damage?
Magdalene Visaggio
#7. Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
George Soros
#8. An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#9. When Thomas Edison's factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison's response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.
Thomas Edison
#10. 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
#11. Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.
Martin O'Malley
#12. Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
Alexandra Adornetto
#13. Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder, what oral sex is. Do you see the damage you've caused? Do you see where your sinful path has led?
Laurie Notaro
#14. 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
#15. Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.
Not to get to know one another,
not to get close enough to damage the heart
made older by each new encounter.
Rod McKuen
#16. We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
Les Aspin
#17. Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience.
Rajasaraswathii
#18. The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless.
Prudence Hayes
#19. if it harms none, it is permissible. We must ask ourselves, 'What impact will my actions have on others? Will they cause hurt or harm? Can I do this, take this, say this without damage to other human beings, other species, the planet itself?' This is the way of least harm.
Sarah Owen
#20. You got it, kemo sabe. I'll keep my crucifix close."
"Vampires aren't scared of a crucifix, Finbar."
"I don't plan to wave it at him, I plan to hit him with it. It's really heavy. I figure I can do some considerable damage to his head.
Derek Landy
#21. Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people.
Nick Clegg
#22. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.
Suzanne Collins
#23. The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality
Abel Aganbegyan
#24. I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow," Snape went on. "That tree did more damage to us than we - " Ron blurted out. "Silence!" snapped Snape
J.K. Rowling
#25. Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#26. The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.
Charles Vest
#27. Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
Charles Stross
#28. Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for - "
"Nico, shut up!" Bianca put her hands to her face. "This is not your stupid Mythomagic game,
okay? There are no gods!
Rick Riordan
#29. If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.
Tom Robbins
#30. What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan
#31. I've often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.
William Brinkley
#32. Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.
Noel DeJesus
#33. You chopped onions with a knife, spread butter with a knife. Yes, it could cause damage, but there were lots of other uses. There was only one use for a gun. Two
Anoushka Beazley
#34. We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.
Melanie Joy
#35. I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes ... are maps ... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail
Adrienne Rich
#36. It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
Elvis Costello
#37. And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.
Stephen King
#38. Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.
Albert Einstein
#39. I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.
Terry Gross
#40. It is regrettable that many Christian psychologists talk more about such things as unconscious motivation and emotional damage than they do about sin and responsibility.
Larry Crabb
#41. Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.
Anneli Rufus
#42. I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.
Kevin Mitnick
#43. It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
Robert B. Laughlin
#44. The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
Klaus Schwab
#45. You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
Billy Corgan
#46. Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done
Agota Kristof
#47. When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.
Rush Limbaugh
#48. There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
Veronica Roth
#49. The willingness to abuse other bodies is the willingness to abuse one's own. To damage the earth is to damage your children. To despise the ground is to despise its fruit; to despise the fruit is to despise its eaters. The wholeness of health is broken by despite (The Unsettling of America).
Wendell Berry
#51. Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
Warren Ellis
#52. Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
Bill Vaughan
#53. Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
Carl Levin
#54. So what you have," Kenner said, "is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as
Michael Crichton
#55. It was really quite flattering to think that minor damage to my skull could cause such a display of hydrotechnics, but at the same time it left me slightly uneasy about what my response ought to be.
Jeff Lindsay
#56. Sometimes scientists change their minds. New developments cause a rethink. If this bothers you, consider how much damage is being done to the world by people for whom new developments do not cause a rethink.
Terry Pratchett
#57. I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.
Pixie Lott
#58. I've done what Lorien has intended me to do, and that's to undo damage that's been inflicted on those who don't deserve it.
Pittacus Lore
#59. I stopped her fingers from causing any more damage to my resolve.
Charity Bradford
#60. Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
Frances Beinecke
#61. I was lying on my bed, contemplating Mason's death when Amy strolled into our cabin.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Wondering what would cause more damage, a paint-brush in the eye or a putty knife shoved up someone's nostril," I answered, scowling at the ceiling.
Tiffany King
#62. I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.
Kevin Mitnick
#63. The experience you've had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
A.S.A Harrison
#64. The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.
Terry Pratchett
#65. It doesn't take much power to hurt someone," she said. "It's far easier than healing the damage.
Jim Butcher
#66. I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.
Eric Massa
#67. 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
#68. I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
Anne Lamott
#69. Before OkCupid profiles became mandated by the Galactic Government, the only way to find a mate was to self-induce brain-damage and beg strangers for sex in public. The fact that anyone ever achieved sexual congress during these dark times is a remarkable testament to man's will to survive.
Simon Rich
#70. Everyone believed that to be caught out in a shameful moment when neck muscles relax and the head snaps forward might damage career prospects. But believing was not quite enough. Heavy eyelids in the late afternoon had their own logic, their own peculiar weight.
Ian McEwan
#71. I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was through-I knew that_ but it was still debilitating and stressful. All I could do was face the fear and keep going.
Carolyn Jessop
#72. Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.
Satchel Paige
#74. People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.
Prince Philip
#75. Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
Freeman Dyson
#76. It was not that he felt that the world would damage or hurt Frankie in any way, it was much more that there were plenty of things out in the world that Frankie would learn about, and that he would then have no scruples at all.
Jane Smiley
#77. Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.
Barbara Kingsolver
#78. Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.
Dorothy E. Denning
#79. It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
Marya Mannes
#80. That internal war doesn't seem like a product of genetic damage - it seems completely, purely human.
Veronica Roth
#81. Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.
Bill Luff
#82. Since I was growing up in New Zealand where there's a hole in the ozone layer above us, we get so much sun damage to our skin, and the thing we can do to look after ourselves is use sunscreen during the day, but making sure your skin is well hydrated while you sleep.
Rose McIver
#83. There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well
Capers Jones
#84. Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I
Robin Hobb
#85. Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done.
M. Clarke
#86. 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
#87. Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
Anthony Venn-Brown
#89. A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.
John Steinbeck
#90. It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.
Ottilie Weber
#91. 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
#92. For years and years and years ... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.
Michael Lesy
#93. As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.
David Morrell
#94. And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.
Chuck Palahniuk
#95. The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.
Ariana Franklin
#96. Cleave believed the concentration of carbohydrates in the refining process did its damage in three ways.
Gary Taubes
#97. I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!
CeeLo Green
#98. The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
Lisa Unger
#99. Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.
Jeremy Corbyn
#100. Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
David Levithan
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