Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.

The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.

The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

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.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch.  (on Arsenal)

The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

The younger a cell, the faster it grows, the more vulnerable it is to damage.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.