Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

Western corporate governments are far more likely to damage your health or kill you prematurely than anyone from North Korea.

Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard.

What the hell was that?” he asked no-one in particular. “Did they ram us?” “Uh – negative, sir.” Marnetti offered, reading an instrumental assessment from his display, “It seems we were hit by some kind of pulse wave generated by their jump.” “Their jump? – You mean by arriving they nearly killed us?” Marnetti nodded, continuing, “Range 0.5 kilometers, Captain. Holding steady. No recognized weapons activity.” “Damage report.” He ordered, feeling his way back into his seat, eyes glued to the viewscreen. “Shield 2 down, 1 is buckling.” Pluddeman choked. “Power stable, all systems holding steady,” Marnetti added, now rubbing some bruises. “Any communications?” “Nothing, sir. Static on all frequencies.” “What are they doing?” “Nothing, sir. Waiting maybe.” “Waiting, my ass!” Dayne barked. “They must be sizing us up!

When a toxic employer damages your health, publicly hunt them down with science.

When I met Maria at Sachs' apartment in 1979, she hadn't slept with a man in close to three years. It took her that long to recover from the shock of the beating, and abstinence was not a choice so much as a necessity, the only possible cure. As much as the physical humiliation she had suffered, the incident with Jerome had been a spiritual defeat. For the first time in her life, Maria had been chastened. She had stepped over the boundaries of herself, and the brutality of that experience had altered her sense of who she was. Until then, she had imagined herself capable of any thing: any adventure, any transgression, any dare. She had felt stronger than other people, immunized against the ravages and failures that afflict the rest of humanity. After the switch with Lilian, she learned how badly she had deceived herself. She was weak, she discovered, a person hemmed in by her own fears and inner constraints, as mortal and confused as anyone else. It took her three years to repair the damage (to the extent that it was ever repaired), and when we crossed paths at Sachs's apartment that night, she was more or less ready to emerge from her shell.

$5,000 means nothing to me! I did about $5,000 worth of damage to that nose of his!!

When you know that an industry is collaborating to damage their workers health, science is the best way to shut down their toxic activities.

You have to be careful about damaging workers health because those damaged workers may publicly research your toxic workplace to discover what made them sick.

You never quite know when you may hope to repair the damage done by going away.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

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.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

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.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

Does killing time damage eternity?

Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

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

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.

Celebrity damages private life.

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.