Quotes About Damage

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

You have a visitor, my lord. I frowned, What? That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you. I stood up, exasperated. Why didn't you say so? Lacuna looked confused. I did. Just now. You were there. She frowned thoughtfully. Perhaps you have brain damage. It would not shock me in the least, I said. Would you like me to cut open your skull and check, my lord? she asked. Someone that short should not be that disturbing.

It doesn't take much power to hurt someone, she said. It's far easier than healing the damage.

Damn," I mumbled, looking back at the spreading fires. "I'm kinda hard on buildings.

but the worst injury was on her back, just inside of her left clavicle—a nasty puncture wound.

It's like a knife wound, but bigger." "That's probably because it was done with something like a knife, but bigger." "A sword? You've got to be kidding me.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.

Anger in the body is like a termite in the wood.

without truth, people cannot heal. If we ignore the root cause of our wounds, we will continue to be wounded, even if we heal some of the damage. We might fix what has been harmed. But if we continue doing what caused the harm in the first place, we will simply acquire (or inflict) new wounds because the core activity has not changed.

To-day, it is no exaggeration to claim that out of the eleven countries smashed and overrun by Germany, half of them were destroyed, not by tanks, but by propaganda.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

I fear that our clumsy pronouncements, our name-calling, our hysteria about important issues—in short, our lack of grace—may in the end prove so damaging that society no longer looks to us for the guidance it needs.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

Caroline Malloy, the Crazie, went after her sister with a hammer. Missed, but I can imagine what the hammer did to the floor.

Y no diremos también, amigo, que los hombres, al ser dañados, se hacen peores en lo que toca a la virtud humana? -Ni más ni menos. -¿ Y la justicia no es virtud humana? -También esto es forzoso. -Necesario es, por tanto, querido amigo, que los hombres que reciben daño se hagan más injustos. -Eso parece.

Mu meel oli mõru; mõtlesin, et harva soostub loodus hüvitama kahju; ja sama kehtib ka inimühiskonnas, mis looduse üldskeemidest eemaldumisel on arglik ja aeglane; milline mõttelooline saavutus oleks aga jõuda nii kaugele, et loodust ei võetaks kui järgimisväärset eeskuju, vaid kui vormitut rahnu, mida tahuda, või kui vaenlast, kellele vastu hakata.

I instantly regretted my comeback but that's the thing about unkind words. You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can't take it back, ever.

she reacts to the impact not as if it might damage the vessel, but as if it is a thrill she'd happily pay for if this were a carnival ride.

On the one hand, the attorney general, Tio Barbizon, now owed him a favor. On the other hand, if this situation couldn't be contained and if it blew up on them, Hayden might suffer some damage to his image for having acceded so quickly to Barbizon's request. What