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Quotes About Damage

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously.
~ Haruki Murakami
Entonces no lo sabía. No sabía que era capaz de herir a alguien tan hondamente que jamás se repusiera. A veces, hay personas que pueden herir a los demás por el mero hecho de existir
~ Haruki Murakami
If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix.
~ Haruki Murakami
Sara said she has feelings for me. He had no reason to doubt it. But there are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel . Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.
~ Haruki Murakami
But problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.
~ Harvard Business School Press
Although cable news has, I believe, done much damage in undercutting civility in political discourse—a civility to which more journalists and newscasters aspired in the pre-cable era—it is insufficient to simply single out blowhards like Bill O'Reilly, or Fox News overlord Roger Ailes, or on the left, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, formerly of MSNBC. The problem is partly that there's money in staging the televisual equivalent of cockfighting.
~ Heather Hendershot
Yahoo is a battleship. If you've ever seen a battleship, they're gigantic, and Yahoo is gigantic in the terms of consumer Internet companies. To turn a battleship takes a long time, but once you turn that battle ship the right way, it's a battleship, and it can really inflict some damage on an enemy or competition.
~ Ross Levinsohn
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
~ Sylvia Earle
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
~ Chinua Achebe
For so long, black conservatives have not been able to have a voice; people who have bi-racial children, people in bi-racial relationships, it has been so black and white. I blame Obama. His eight years in office did a lot of damage in terms of race relations in this country.
~ Candace Owens
Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
~ Charles Platt
When we uncovered the Hinkley case, there were so many other cases like it, and they're just catching up. And we're just starting to see the damage. I was hoping by now there would be more transparency and less defeat and cover-up. I haven't seen much of that change.
~ Erin Brockovich
Because the high-intensity pulses are short, the laser only damages the area where it's applied. The result is precise, clean cuts that are ideal for transparent materials.
~ Donna Strickland
Certainly, I know from my own work at the Department of Transport the potential chaos that will follow a 'no deal' Brexit. It will cause disruption, delay and deep damage to our economy.
~ Jo Johnson
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
~ Sonya Hartnett
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
~ Vanna Bonta
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
~ Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
ha pedig meg lehet menteni, akkor még jobban elcseszni is lehet.
~ Michael Chabon
she was collateral damage
~ Michael Connelly
levels of albumin and renal epithelial cells. These are clear signs of damage somewhere in the kidneys, bladder, or urinary tract. Most of the time it signals what is called clear cell renal cell carcinoma. This man likely had a tumor in one or possibly both kidneys, but of course we can't be sure, since we don't have him to examine." "Would he have known he had cancer?" Ballard asked.
~ Michael Connelly
Do you know a six-letter word for a man of constant sorrow and loneliness?" she asked after sliding the window open and then checking her nail for damage. "Bosch.
~ Michael Connelly
So what you have," Kenner said, "is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as
~ Michael Crichton