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Quotes About Damage

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.
~ Charles Vest
It's often my opponent's plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don't hear the final bell.
~ David Haye
I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.
~ Billy Parish
A Brexit with a poor outcome will damage our country and lead to years of further division.
~ Dominic Grieve
Finally, although Tennent's Super Strong lager, White Lightning, and for the rare rich alcoholic Stella Artois are perfectly acceptable drinks, could you please come up with something less damaging? I think lighter fuel is better for you and contains fewer chemicals.
~ Unknown
The great power of Tony O'Neill is obvious to anybody, but I hope people understand what a rare, extreme talent it takes to write at once so precise and beautiful, yet so imperiled by the damage of its own world." —Dennis Cooper
~ Unknown
The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.
~ Unknown
how the side of the SkyWing's face was melted into a hideous dark mess, revealing a glimpse of her jawbone underneath and pulling one of her yellow eyes down and out of proportion
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The damage caused by opioids is largely caused by their prohibition
~ Unknown
This failure to build trust is damaging because it sets the tone for the second dysfunction: fear of conflict. Teams that lack trust are incapable of engaging in unfiltered and passionate debate of ideas. Instead, they resort to veiled discussions and guarded comments.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Protection works and you need it. You need it because sound becomes painful around 125 dB. Short-tem exposure that is pretty certain to cause damage and hearing loss begins around 140 dB. Firearms? They run 145, 150, 160, 165 dB. Pick a number, it doesn't matter, you will lose hearing. A "quiet" 12-gauge load at 140 dB is going to damage your hearing a bit slower than a magnum at 165, but you will go deaf.
~ Unknown
But triggered persistently, it destroys brain cells, causes ruminative early morning waking, and damages the immune system.
~ Paul Brown
avoiding anger governs our ability to do damage, it also limits our ability to do good.
~ Unknown
The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?
~ Unknown
the horrendous gash of its mine-works
~ Paul Theroux
Je ne veux plus avoir affaire à mes propres ténèbres, me suis-je promis à moi même, fermant définitivement la porte au nez de l'Autre. Une chute de troisième étage fait tout autant de dégâts qu'une chute du centième étage.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people.
~ Nick Clegg
Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.
~ Ed Parker
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
~ Theodore Roethke
Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.
~ Danielle Steel
The headmaster of a newly constructed high-altitude sports academy (Watt) becomes neurotically obsessed with litigation over the construction's ancillary damage to a V.A. hospital far below, as a way of diverting himself from his wife's (Heath's) poorly hidden affair with the academically renowned mathematical topologist who is acting as the project's architect ('Rection'). CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)
~ David Foster Wallace
The single thing that does the most to destroy forensic evidence at a fire scene is not the fire itself; it is an untrained, overzealous investigator armed with a rake.
~ William M. Bass
All that could not be taken from him. And it didn't matter if, overnight, the colour had worn off the kitchen knobs. It didn't matter if the china light-shade in the kitchen had a crack he hadn't heard about before. What mattered was damage done to something as fragile as a dream.
~ William Trevor