Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

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.

Celebrity damages private life.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

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

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

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

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

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression." But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students." Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.

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.

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.

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 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 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.