Damage Quotes - Page 10

• In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

  Antoni Tapies

  Religious, Art, Loss

  "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.

  Sophie Monk

  Past, Guy, Deeds

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• Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Cost, Pay

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 81, 1978.

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• The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Running, War, Poison

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.412, Random House

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• The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Pestilence, Culture

  "What Are People For?". Book by Wendell Berry, 1990.

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• Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Russia, Eden

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• I do sort of believe that in life all manifestations of evil usually come from an emotional place. They come from some kind of emotional heartbreak or some psychological damage. I'm not a psychologist and that's probably for the best but I am interested in it.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Believe, Emotional, Evil

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

  Erwin McManus

  Humanity, Littles, Way

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• The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wise, Jobs, Lying

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• I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

  Marlon Brando

  Stories, Way, Life Is

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.)

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Airplane, Men

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 390: "The Good People of Halifax", 2002.

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• Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Art, Philosophy, Blow

  Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.73, Tuttle Publishing

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• The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

  Margaret Halsey

  Emotional, People, Atmosphere

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• Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Home, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Fashion, Men

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• We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Responsibility, America

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.

  Eric Pianka

  People, Support, Environmental

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• How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

  J. G. Holland

  Spiritual, Long, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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• With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.

  Yoshijiro Umezu

  Land, Luck, Enemy

  "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, 2003.

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• Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Children, Parent, Harm

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Consenting Adult”, p.80, Open Road Media

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• A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  Strong, Numbers, Circles

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• When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

  George W. Bush

  Age, Threat, Hoping For The Best

  Speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.

  Michael Pollan

  Impact, America, Meat

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

  Tom Dreesen

  Family, Father, Marijuana

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• Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

  Peter Watts

  Murder, Easier, Property

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.227, Macmillan

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