Damage Quotes

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Respect, Integrity

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• Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Damage Is Done, Earth, Century

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• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  Sam Donaldson

  Answers, Media Training

  Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books

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• Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  Josephine Hart

  I Hate You, Adversity, People

  "Fictional character: Anna Barton". "Damage", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

  Layne Staley

  Pain, Thinking, Drug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

  Esther Williams

  Football, Strong, Swimming

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• The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

  Juan Williams

  Country, War, Political

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Cutting, Loss, Soul

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• Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

  Ron Silver

  Artist, Careers, Speak

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• All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Destruction, Collateral

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

  Anthony Storr

  Sympathy, Tea, Done

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• 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 M. Vest

  Real, Done, Mit

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Mistake, Damage Is Done, Medical

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• We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

  Les Aspin

  Should Have, Done, Theater

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• A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

  Harold W. Dodds

  Heart, Can Do, Thick

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• It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

  Brian Lamb

  Easier

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• There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

  Cary Elwes

  Perfect, Would Be, World

  Cary Elwes, Joe Layden (2014). “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Country, World, Way

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• The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

  Brock Yates

  Children, Moving, Icons

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• Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

  Steve Mann

  Shoes, Naked, Boots

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• Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

  Douglas Coupland

  Personality, Brain, Doe

  "Douglas Coupland: Everything Man". Interview with Ann Webb, www.rom.on.ca. January 16, 2015.

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• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

  Edward T. Hall

  People, Theatre, Experts

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• Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

  Jose Bergamin

  Spiritual, Drinking, Causes

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• Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Levels, May, Weapons

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