Quotes About Damage

Fortunately, human beings are extraordinarily resilient: it takes a pretty bad upbringing to do permanent damage.

Se necesita una educación muy mala para que el daño sea permanente.

Whatever fool had penned the nonsense that words could do no harm should be condemned to Tophet's lowest fiery pit. For they did far more damage than mere broken bones that eventually healed. Furious

My wife killed herself. He said, My wife took her life, like a rhyme. Do you blame yourself? She had often said it, that she would. She'd had every kind of treatment. Eventually it becomes hard to know how to handle it. Like Dora: I can always die, always die. Caro said, There is the damage on both sides.

No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself. […] No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself.

But it's as my mother, bless her, says: When a madman breaks a window, it's never his own….

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.

Because it was the ugliness that drew him to her: it told him that she had suffered and been ruined by the war just like him. For her the damage was visible, whereas for him it was hidden beneath the surface. But they were still the same—casualties, walking wounded, carrying on without hope of recovery, separated from the rest of the population by an experience that they could neither share nor explain.

A menudo curar es mutilar.

Commit cruelty on a person long enough and the mind begins to go.

It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

Marcus looked down. "Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?" he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.

For example, brain-damaged individuals who lack the ability to sleep in the slow-wave phase nonetheless have normal, even improved, memory.

As killing as the canker to the rose.

The potential damage to America's national security as a result of Obama's "Russian reset" was incalculable.20

At what point does the brown cloud over an industrial city become a problem as opposed to a sky-high banner proclaiming good times? When does the ration of clear-cuts and Christmas tree farms to healthy, intact forest begin to cause aesthetic and moral discomfort, or real environmental damage?

The answer was a big NO! In zero gravity, as soon as we touched a tile, we found ourselves being pushed away. Without a suitably positioned restraint system, we could not work to fix the damage. We would have damaged more tiles than we fixed. I asked that we not haul the MMU on the STS-1 mission, because it could not have helped us do tile repairs.

Cultural prejudice rather than God's will was responsible for relegating women to a purely passive role in the Church. Through this theological error, enormous damage had been inflicted on the faithful in previous centuries and the harm was still being done today. Cultural bigotry had invaded Christian beliefs and had succeeded in enthroning a pagan prejudice as if it were a genuine Christian practice.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

By this faith instilled from childhood and afterward confirmed by preachings, it has come to pass that no one shuns evils from religion, but only from civil and moral law; thus not because they are sins but because they are damaging.

Hatred/living in your/one's past is self abuse i.e. it's a habit/life style that causes damage/harm to your own self/oneself. So, desist from that.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.