Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

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.

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?

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?

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

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

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 we will have a problem.