Quotes About Harm

The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.

If I'd learned anything over the past few years, it was not to make stupid assumptions. The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.

I'm not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you're doing that's harming you, and you can't stop doing it, is a sign of mental illness.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

It is my hope that this book will help to demystify the origins of travel writing and show that when thousands of travelers follow a guidebook word-for-word, recommendation-for-recommendation, it not only harms contemporary international travel but can also do serious harm to places in developing countries.

El reposo es el primer deber del ciudadano, y la impaciencia no hace más que perjudicarle.

When intellectuals are unable to find enough contemporary grievances to suit their vision or agenda, they can mine the past for harm inflicted by some on others.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! The Publisher wishes to point out that no car designers were harmed in the research and writing of this book. Upon reading the book however, readers may decide that perhaps some should have been!

Come now my child If we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the darkest part of the forest?

Trust energizes participants. We feel good when things work smoothly. We need to be safe to experiment and make mistakes. We need testing to bring accountability to our experimentation so that we can be sure we are doing no harm.

To me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted thing has power to harm me as much as I have to harm him. If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt.

Only an animal visibly damages its mate.

The Amish, it turns out, do something that's both shockingly radical and simple in our age of impulsive and complicated consumerism: they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

consider the technology optional unless its temporary removal would harm or significantly disrupt the daily operation of your professional or personal life.

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Silencio, silencio y más silencio. Me gusta el silencio. El silencio no hace daño. Las palabras, sí.

Children require the protection of adults, usually from adults. Their fear of people is not yet developed, their intuition not yet loaded with enough information and experience to keep them from harm. The lesson for parents in the cases I've cited is to take nothing for granted when it comes to the safety of your children.

A threat is a statement of an intention to do some harm, period. It offers no conditions, no alternatives, no ways out. It does not contain the words if, or else, until, unless. Sentences that do contain those words are not threats; they are intimidations, and there is an important distinction.

Hate is like drinking a vial of poison and expecting it to harm the other person, You're not hurting the guy, only yourself.

hate is like drinking a vial of poison and expecting it to harm the other person

MARGIE: You want to know if she'll survive? She'll survive! Living with someone who doesn't want to be there would do more harm.