Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

We see President [Donald] Trump actually reclaiming the proper role of the executive, and undoing a lot of damage that was done to the economy through excessive executive action by President [Barack] Obama.

When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.

We sometimes become so obsessed with punishing villainous characters, that we forget the collateral damage is actually experienced by marginalized groups, and we shouldn't punish them for that.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

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?

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.

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.

A boy made of stardust and selfishness; a girl filled with fire and fury at the world. We are a tangle of emotional wreckage, two broken messes thrown together, trying to navigate something we can barely comprehend.

Alexander shifted in my arms. God, he was so small, and from the giddy looks on my father's and Ashley's faces, they already worshiped him. We all started off this way, small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah, and even Beth. At some point, someone held and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up.

Although these negative statements that we speak over people’s lives are ‘simple English’, they tend to be sticky and their damage is huge. Sometimes, these negative words or statements can have lasting adverse effect on the life of an individual.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

Beware of presumptuous people who believe they know a lot. They may commit as much damage as ignorant people.

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.

Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users.

Damage my health and I will hunt you down with science.

Damage my health and we will have a problem.

Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat. “To hell with that!” he roared, this was no accidental side-effect of arriving – it was clear they were under attack by hostile aliens. “Fire! Shoot the crap outta them!

Doctors may kill you with their toxic prescription drugs if you let them.

Doctors should study professional astronomers to diagnose the mental health conditions that are driving them to damage their workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data.

Everything happens; some get hurt maybe a fairy tale of damage but nature can't be change. We just walk away with memories that carries a story being made after as history.

Fikiria kwanza maana ya unachosema. Halafu sema.

For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries I had helped to break, sprinkling flakes of myself all over the surface of New York like so much fish food, had been forgiven.