Quotes About Detriment

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

Sometimes things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup can ruin the fries. Value is about balance.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

I remain confident that if faced with such a threat, the West will remember its twenty-five hundred years of tradition, much to the detriment of any possible foe. Having said that, we must all hope our leaders are wise enough to forestall any threat of this magnitude before it manifests itself. Because the Western way of war is brutal. If it is ever again unleashed in all its decisive barbarity, it will be many generations before our enemies recover.

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.

I have seen something of this world, she said over the trays, and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

better is a sure enemy to well.

Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

No time back then or since has there been much discussion of the significance of Roosevelt's executive order on July 26, 1941 that froze all Japanese assets in the US. This occurred four months before Pearl Harbor. It essentially created an oil embargo on the Japanese. Such sanctions are a deeply flawed policy that we continue to use today, to our detriment.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

As killing as the canker to the rose.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.