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Quotes About Damage

It has done much damage that many reluctant Germans in high places spoke and wrote to Englishmen after the solution of the Czech question. The Fuehrer carried his point when you lost your nerve and capitulated too soon.
~ William L. Shirer
this message is that skin damage is cumulative and irreversible. So we've rewritten the message to stress that point and eliminate nonessential information. We've done this to illustrate the process of forced prioritization; we've had to eliminate some interesting stuff (such as the references to melanin) in order to let the core shine through. We've tried to emphasize the core in a couple of ways. First, we've unburied the lead—putting
~ Chip Heath
Is this your stuff? Is this your TV? Did you drop your goddamn TV on my brand new car?
~ Christa Faust
Winegrowing lore said rosebushes were planted to serve as early-warning indicators of sickness in the vines. They supposedly were also a leftover tradition from the days when horse-drawn plows worked the vineyards—the thorns encouraged the beasts to make wide turns and thus reduce the potential damage to the stakes and wires that supported the rows.
~ Christie Ridgway
But the distinctive concern of biblical justice is not to punish sinners, but to restore shalom by clarifying and dealing with the damage caused by wrongdoing. Punishment was a tool for helping to achieve this.
~ Christopher D. Marshall
The transition of the 1970s in Spain was thus a feast of change, but also a civic famine, in that it left unresolved the huge weight of forty years of violent dictatorship, addressing none of the vast accumulated social hurt, the damage done.
~ Helen Graham
Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk.
~ Henry Jenkins
extreme financial concentration has damaged not only the operation of financial markets, but also the ability of the Federal Reserve to influence their operation for the better (page 41).
~ Henry Kaufman
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinkin
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Few – if any – of these patients would survive or emerge unscathed from whatever it was that had damaged their brains.
~ Henry Marsh
I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
~ Henry Rollins
I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn't find my microphone. Now that's damage.
~ Henry Rollins
Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100%, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.
~ Lester Bangs
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
~ Lev Grossman
Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.'
~ Cornelia Parker
Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism, but if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem.
~ Mike McCue
The effect of the foreign direct investment of Etihad in Jet Airways and the implied bilateral agreement of air services between India and the UAE has primarily damaged Air India, which is a government-owned airline with huge assets that are extremely valuable.
~ Subramanian Swamy
Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.
~ Janny Wurts
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Pero la indolencia, el descuido y las dilaciones en los pequeños deberes que tenía que llenar, me han hecho más daño que los grandes vicios.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle
~ Bob Dylan
A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
~ Bertrand Russell