Quotes About Damage

The truth may hurt but lies kill.

Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren't all destined to leave a trail of damage. It's not just your mum and dad who fuck you up, Mr. Larkin. I gazed around me, like someone suddenly handed clear glasses, and I saw that pretty much everyone bore the brutal imprint of love, whether it was lost, whipped away from them, or simply vanished into a grave.

Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren't all destined to leave a trail of damage.

I'm mad getting involved." "No, I don't. Too many people follow their own happiness without a thought for the damage they leave in their wake.

people around me and I wonder if we aren't all destined to leave a trail of damage.

The candidate would blame her staff for failing to contain the damage, and, privately, they would fault her for failing to take the steps necessary to do that.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

We've all heard that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, but that is a dangerous oversimplification. Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life.

This principle, called "negativity bias,"13 shows up all over psychology. In marital interactions, it takes at least five good or constructive actions to make up for the damage done by one critical or

On issue after issue, it's as though liberals are trying to help a subset of bees (which really does need help) even if doing so damages the hive. Such "reforms" may lower the overall welfare of a society, and sometimes they even hurt the very victims liberals were trying to help.

Learn the psychological damage that war does, and work to prevent war. There is no contradiction between hating war and honoring the soldier. Learn how war damages the mind and spirit, and work to change those things in military institutions and culture that needlessly create or worsen these injuries. We don't have to go on repeating the same mistakes.

He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.

Inmortal realmente tiene que ser España para no haber sucumbido ya a tanto daño como le han hecho, al través de la Historia, los españoles

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

thought possible a few months earlier. . . . Today, as Korra raced along the pier on the back of her polar bear–dog, Naga, Aang's gaze felt troubled. She knew it was impossible. The statue was mere stone, nothing more, but the city Korra was sworn to protect had been so damaged in the recent attack that she couldn't help imagining Aang's reaction. She was sure it would mirror her own. Korra pulled Naga to a halt in front of Republic

Korra slid from Naga's back and let her gaze drift over the once-magnificent arena. Several of its tall spires were charred. The gilded glass dome that had been the arena's crowning glory was shattered. The jagged iron girders that had formed the dome's skeleton stuck out from the roof at odd angles, the metal gnarled and twisted. Korra shivered as she took in the damage, and a cold feeling of foreboding crept over her.

In a nation without an adequate or affordable childcare system, no universal healthcare, expensive to prohibitive costs for higher education and a minimum wage that is not a living wage, there are no registries for the officials and employers who routinely implement policies that actively damage all people, including or even particularly children.

Trauma breaks your brain—makes it atrophy forever. The damage is not metaphorical but physical. The most severely affected tissue is the left superior parietal lobule, associated with memory, language, and the ability to orient oneself in the world. The lobule shrinks.

and before him, the minstrel who smeared on love's blackface, rattling his damage like a tambourine. I have been the deadest nag limping circles around the paddock, have flown to beady pieces, sick as the tongue of mercury at the thermometer's tip.

It took the Fire Brigade a day and a half to secure the remains of the house enough to recover Crew Cut's body, which was described by Dr Jennifer Vaughan as 'suffering from crush trauma' and by Dr Walid as 'mostly flat'.

Even at ten o'clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. 'What I'm saying here,' Seawoll had said, 'is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.' I don't know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don't

They felt at once profoundly numb and profoundly ecstatic to be young and inflicting optional damage on each other;

It did his career no longterm damage, but Dudley Clarke's strange episode of cross-dressing remains an enduring mystery.

Well you stick the dynamite in the keyhole and you don't damage the safe, only sometimes you put a little too much in and blow the safe door up, but other times you're lucky and the safe just comes open. Thus the scion of a great banking dynasty learned how to rob a bank.