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Quotes About Damage

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
~ Sherwood Smith
I was looking hardest for their big players. These were the guys I wanted to force into the boards first. Clean, legal body checks, of course. I didn't want a reputation as a goon. Besides, I didn't need to play dirty. I could do enough damage without getting penalties.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
If Trump has a saving grace, it is that he is so ignorant and impetuous. He is incapable of effectively implementing his worst impulses in the face of entrenched resistance from government professionals, the judiciary, and the press corps. A future Trump might be smarter and more disciplined, and thus more dangerous. That's a frightening thought, given how much damage
~ Max Boot
one of the "slow burns," where all the major blood vessels are missed. I
~ Max Brooks
It's not what we don't know that hurts us," people say. "It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage." There
~ Melody Beattie
But not even Hitler can damage the fells' In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170.
~ Beatrix Potter
We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do.
~ bell hooks
the French had torn away the silverwork, wrenched down the statues, and ripped the triptychs from their frames.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I have seen human beings who have forged intellectual armor to shield themselves from adversity. They seemed stronger than most. They said, I couldn't care less, and laughed at everything, but when adversity managed to pierce their armor, it caused terrible damage. I have seen human beings suffer from the slightest adversity, the slightest annoyance, but still remain open-minded and sensitive to everything, learning something from each attack.
~ Bernard Werber
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
~ Bertrand Russell
El daño que hace una religión es de dos clases, una dependiente de la clase de creencia que se considera que se debe profesar, y otra dependiente de los dogmas particulares en que se cree.
~ Bertrand Russell
My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
~ Karl Rove
If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.
~ Sean Quinn
All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
~ Warren Rudman
No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track.
~ Sue Grafton
Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.
~ Sue Grafton
Like a chemical toxin, the emotional damage inflicted by these parents spreads throughout a child's being, and as the child grows, so does the pain.
~ Susan Forward
Verbal abuse is as damaging as physical abuse, and in some cases, it does even more damage to a child. Insulting names, degrading comments and constant criticism all leave deep emotional scars that hinder feelings of self-worth and personal agency.
~ Susan Forward
Repressed rage can be one of the major sources of stress to the body. In fact, it can actually begin to wear the body out. Rather than deal with their unacceptable rage at their partners, many women unconsciously redirect their anger inward, back onto themselves. The more a woman does this, the more internal damage she is likely to do to herself.
~ Susan Forward
solid majority have suffered a damaged sense of self-worth because a parent had regularly hit them, or criticized them, or "joked" about how stupid or ugly or unwanted they were, or overwhelmed them with guilt, or sexually abused them, or forced too much responsibility on them, or desperately overprotected them.
~ Susan Forward
The charade of the normal family" is especially damaging to a child because it forces him to deny the validity of his own feelings and perceptions.
~ Susan Forward