Quotes About Damage

She came into the room, carrying a kerosene lantern this time, and Steven couldn't help cringing when he thought of the damage that could do. But

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal.

The next time you feel angry, try to become aware of some of the physical sensations and changes that are occurring in your body. Remember that physical reactions accompanying your chronic anger can lead to damage, illness, and possibly premature death.

The relationships that are damaged are often your best.

They're smart enough to know the one thing a person values most in the house, and they may purposefully decide to smash

Partner psychological abuse encompasses nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by one partner that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant harm to the other partner.

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.

taken the full brunt of the FOAB explosion and shockwave.

But further research has suggested that after people have gained power, they tend to behave like patients with damage to the brain's orbitofrontal lobes. That is, the experience of wealth and power is akin to removing the part of the brain "critical to empathy and socially appropriate behavior.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

A dent was found in the upper frame of the windshield. This too was measured and observed. Frazier thought that a bit of flying metal might have hit it.* Inch by inch, the FBI men examined the exterior of the automobile,

I returned the vial to the book, then surveyed the damage to my library. Angry as I was at Deb's betrayal, seeing the bullet-ridden texts was worse. It was one thing to shoot at me, but to destroy my books

Used poorly in a compulsory, heavy-handed way, video recording can damage teacher morale at a time when, for many teachers, morale is at an all-time low.

A neurotoxin, phenylalanine excites neurons in the brain to the point of cellular death, causing emotional and behavior problems. He said excessive amounts of phenylalanine, which constitutes 50 percent aspartame, can damage parts of the brain and is especially dangerous for infants and fetuses. We're

He had been too busy with the autumn pruning the last few days to stop as he often did to admire the close growing hydrangea bushes, their dark glossy leaves crowned with clusters of deep blue flowers. Now to his annoyance he saw that one of the tallest and most handsome plants, in the back row, a few feet out from the wall directly below the tower, had been badly crushed and broken, the beautiful blue heads limp on their stalks.

She never saw more damage done than by folk acting on high principle.

thinking otherwise is to inhabit them differently, to envision how to recast the resilient impingements and damages to which imperial forms give rise.

If I had to offer up a one sentence definition of addiction, I'd call it a form of mourning for the irrecoverable glories of the first time...addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia. That drive to return to the past isn't an innocent one. It's about stopping your passage to the future, it's a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience. And the love of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage done to users.

Systematic bullying when she was most vulnerable had distorted the structure of her personality, made a victim of her, to be destroyed, either by things or by human beings, people or fjords and forests; it made no difference, in any case she could not escape. The irreparable damage inflicted had long ago rendered her fate inevitable.

Satan must grin wickedly when he sees our gossip disguised as a prayer request or a need to get a third person's opinion. It just adds fuel to Satan's fire as the problem becomes widespread and relationships are damaged.

Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.

Sólo sufres en proporción al daño que tú mismo te haces, a título personal, o el que recibes de los demás concediéndoles el derecho de hacértelo.