Quotes About Harm

Most people who want to cut a throat start on the outside, They hack and saw and chop.' She mimed hacking and sawing and chopping. 'That's all right if you want to hurt their feelings,' she said. 'That's alright if you want to put a crimp in their day. But not if you want to be certain of killing them.

promise not to harm any of the children for the time being—but only if you answer at once. That is my offer. Shall I put on my gloves, or…?" "That won't be necessary," Mr. Benedict said. "Just make the promise." "I promise," said Mr. Curtain. He gave Constance a sly look. "Am I telling the truth, my dear?

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

children, possibly irreparably, physically

Reading Detective Sanders's report to the grand jury, it was amazing how many lives had been touched by the perfidies of Ted Graham. He had injured

Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling. I didn't mean no harm, I said and kissed her. That a new dress? Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.

My undergraduate degree is in engineering. I have a Ph.D. in biochemistry with an emphasis on renewable energy resources. And we are running out of the fossil fuel stuff. Not to mention wreaking great harm through climate change.

But he is sick," Potting interjected. "Takes a sick mind to shove a knife so deep into someone it breaks their spine.

Longer-term strategies were the professional domain of others, mostly political types. These folks made good assassins, too. Only instead of bullets, they were basically bribed to enact laws by other folks with more money than was good for them. And they harmed a lot more people than Robie ever could.

In principle, an open society sees information flow as a good thing, to be hampered only in the presence of strong evidence that harm cannot be prevented by any other means.

Companies that step up to repair the harm they've caused and prevent new harm from occurring have a much easier time attracting top talent to their doors. It's probably going to be cheaper for your organization to resolve your legacy issues now than it will be a decade from now, when the harm will have mounted even more.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, And never shall it be more gracious.

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.

I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.

In my opinion, however, disasters such as these teach men this lesson with regard to anger: one ought not to punish even a slave in anger; for masters who have lost their tempers often do more harm to themselves than they inflict; but in dealing with enemies it is utterly and entirely wrong to launch an attack under the influence of anger and without deliberation. Anger does not look ahead, whereas deliberation is just as concerned with avoiding harm oneself as with inflicting it on the enemy.

Accurst be he that first invented war.