Quotes About Damage

The left strap was torn from the pleated bodice but did not appear to be otherwise damaged, it should be easy to mend. More difficult would be the long jagged tear in the skirt, upward from the hem on a bias. She could hear still the shriek of the delicate fabric as if her very nerves had been ripped out of her flesh.

Recovery from trauma can take place only within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. In renewed connections with other people, the survivor recreates the psychological faculties damaged or deformed by the traumatic experience.

The wound kills that does not bleed.

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert a man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.

It's airstrikes that have destroyed the country. Planes do the most damage, and ISIS doesn't have planes.

The shoe is new, but the sock has a hole."

The sock is punctured, but the shoe is new."

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That's why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?" "The need to lead is a symptom.

Damasio and his colleagues have observed that people who do not display the appropriate emotions before they decide, sometimes because of brain damage, also have an impaired ability to make good decisions. An inability to be guided by a "healthy fear" of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.

an accurate diagnosis may suggest an intervention to limit the damage that bad judgments and choices often cause.

Damasio and his colleagues have observed that people who do not display the appropriate emotions before they decide, sometimes because of brain damage, also have an impaired ability to make good decisions.

The damaged frontal regions normally play an important role in assessing or monitoring signals provided by other neural systems.

the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage.

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

does not hurt your body. It's the way you run that does the damage and causes pain.

However much Ylo enjoyed women, he would always expect them to have fun, also. He believed quite honestly that he was doing them a good turn. With his word of power to aid him, Andor was a much more calculating hunter. He knew the damage his seductions might cause. Not only would he care little about hurting his victims, he probably enjoyed that, also. There was a difference between amorality and immorality — not much of one, but some. The

The stock market crash of '29 did more damage to this country than either of the World Wars or the Cold War, and that was triggered by uncertainty and chaos.

enough Freudian psychoanalysis to know that we never really overcome the damage they do to us when we are small. The baggage we take with us to the grave is the same baggage our parents hand us just after we are born. This was the narrative

Dr. Edward Ulysses Hampton had read enough Freudian psychoanalysis to know that we never really overcome the damage they do to us when we are small. The baggage we take with us to the grave is the same baggage our parents hand us just after we are born.

Many amphibian eggs are black with the pigment melanin that protects their delicate cells from damage by ultra-violet light. Newt eggs, however, are white and lack pigment so they need protection of leaves.

We can't cut down rainforests forever. And anything that we can't do forever is by definition, unsustainable. If we do things that are unsustainable, the damage accumulates, ultimately, to a point where the whole system collapses. No ecosystem, not matter how big, is secure. Even one as vast as the ocean.

it would take the Earth more than a thousand years to recover from the damage we have already done,