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Quotes About Damage

You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges. Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent.
~ J.D. Robb
Poison was poison whether it killed you emotionally, mentally, or physically.
~ J.D. Robb
With a few words you cut slices out of lives. No matter how they were put back together later, they were never the same. Once pieces were missing from the whole, the pattern was forever altered.
~ J.D. Robb
war fucks everybody without discretion …
~ J.L. Saint
between the hangover and the damage from that right hook of his roommate's, he had about all he wanted to handle. "Can I get you some Motrin or some shit?" V asked. "You really do feel bad, huh." "I didn't enjoy that." "Because I wasn't in a leather thong?" V laughed in a crack.
~ J.R. Ward
Lies that are fundamental hurt fundamentally.
~ J.R. Ward
I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.
~ Jack Ketchum
I lay in bed and thought how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.
~ Jack Ketchum
Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.
~ Jack London
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.
~ Andy Jassy
The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'
~ Stephen Hunter
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
~ Bill Dedman
A hard Brexit would be so damaging to the true interests of the UK that what might follow - if we are lucky - is a great unmasking, not just of the political fantasists and chancers who peddled the great Brexit swindle, but of the historical delusion that empowered them.
~ David Olusoga
When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi missiles from being fired in the first place serves as an embarrassing reminder that the kingdom's leadership is unable to restrain their Iranian-backed opponent.
~ Jamal Khashoggi
In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
~ Chris Hedges
Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.
~ Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac.
~ T. Greenwood
He started to realize his body wasn't defective; rather, his society was damaging.
~ Tao Lin
To be a successful investor requires being a good risk manager. Managing risk means having a plan to cover the downside. That's what insurance is all about—damage control to prevent the unforeseen from smashing your nest egg.
~ Taylor Larimore
This confirms a long-held belief of mine that lexical order induces thermodynamic order. The lexical order of an amulet reinforces the order a body already possesses, thus providing protection against damage. The lexical order of an animating name increases the order of a body, thus providing motive power for an automaton.
~ Ted Chiang
Death is uncommon, fortunately, because we are durable, and fatal mishaps are rare, but it makes difficult the study of anatomy, especially since many of the accidents serious enough to cause death leave the deceased's remains too damaged for study.
~ Ted Chiang
Through the Stages of Childhood Chapter 14 Infancy to Childhood: Training Objectives Howard's son suffered brain damage during infancy.
~ Tedd Tripp
The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.
~ John Bel Edwards