Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation.

I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.

I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier.

I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

I have hurt people. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, there was damage done.

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.

I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.

I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them.

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

John Kerry had surgery on his right shoulder this week to repair some damage. It was pretty bad, he had no feeling. It was almost like he was a Republican.

It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.

It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

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.

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.

I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.

It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.