Quotes About Damage

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.'

My hair has been so wrecked over the years by various things.

I've wrecked a lot of good cars in my day.

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness... Women are weaker, but their weakness is full of cunning and an equally rigid moral certainty. Since their arena is smaller, their capacity for real damage is less alarming.

Because of the delicate structure of the ear, our hearing is vulnerable to damage. We're born with about sixteen thousand of the cochlear hair cells that allow us to pick up sounds, and these cells don't regenerate.

it takes at least five good acts to repair the damage of one critical or destructive act.

Everything breaks if you hit it hard enough.

cracked, and then another

Didn't you used to date a guy who worked in e-mail spam?" Grace asked. "Yep," Cora said. "Obsessive creep named—get this—Gus. Hard to get rid of. I had to use my own version of a bunker buster on him." "What did you do?" "I told Gus he had a small wee-wee." "Ouch." "Like I said, the bunker buster. Works every time, but there's often, uh, collateral damage.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

A long break can cause long-term damage to a player's technique. It can be dangerous for a snooker player to go 2-3 months without even touching a cue.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

If you are in a toxic relationship, that poisons you everywhere else in your life.

Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

We all know how tough children are with toys. It turns out grownups are much worse.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.