Quotes About Damage

Las mentiras son el equivalente social de los residuos tóxicos: todo el mundo es un potencial damnificado por su propagación.

what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

did just that but felt no better. The toxin carried by the fish was heat resistant, I was to learn, and more boiling or baking could not neutralize it. As it was explained to me later in Boston, the cigua toxin was quickly excreted by the body but not before it had radically damaged the nervous system. Very much like Ravelstein's Guillain-Barré syndrome. Among the first symptoms is a sudden distaste for food. I even disliked the look of it. I came to loathe all food odors.

Why should one man have the power to damage all nature or pollute the entire world?

The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.

El encargarse de locos acaba por dañar al mismo diablo.

harm falls most in mans destroying way

Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and 'secular-progressive values' have certainly done much damage, they are symptoms, not causes—fragments of junk sucked into a vacuum. The fundamental reason why so much of our culture is shit—either literally, like Signor Manzoni's masterwork, or figuratively—is exhaustion, cultural exhaustion.

Disregard can be an act of violence.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)

With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.

They also adopted a notion we rejected, called VaR or "value at risk," where they estimated the damage to their portfolio for, say, the worst events among the most likely 95 percent of future outcomes, neglecting the extreme 5 percent "tails," then acted to reduce any unacceptably large risks. The defect of VaR alone is that it doesn't fully account for the worst 5 percent of expected cases. But these extreme events are where ruin is to be found.

reporting components for "worthy" victims]: Fullness and reiteration of the details of the murder and the damage inflicted on the victim. Stress on indignation, shock, and demands for justice. The search for responsibility at the top.

GOOD Reader. When I first penned this discourse, I intended it chiefly for the satisfaction of my private friends: but, since that time, have been persuaded to publish the same. And the rather, because of a disorderly Colony [of Thomas Weston's men] that are dispersed, and most of them returned [to England]; to the great prejudice and damage of him that set them forth.

A selfish-figure may harm itself and a few other subjects; however, a selfish-nation can humiliate itself and also damage all other nations.

Certainly, compromise brings and delivers something to both parties than conflict; otherwise, conflict only damages and even obliterates severely.

Divorce or separation if that happens for whatever reasons and circumstances; it breaks not only your life; it also breaks children's life. Consequently, children suffer from grave psychological damage and feel the deprivation of love; in that situation; certainly, parents or partners are accountable for such a crime since they prefer their happiness, not children's feelings.