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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• And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

  Michael Chertoff

  Jobs, Thinking, Looks

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• The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Spiritual, Uncontrollable Urge

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

  Joe Lieberman

  Mean, Responsible Government, Around The World

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• Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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• I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Believe, Damage Control, Enough Time

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview With Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

  Ellen Tauscher

  High Heels, Together, Hurricanes

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• It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Interesting, Curiosity, Radio

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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• And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Thinking, America

  "Interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on "Meet the Press"". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2010.

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• There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Government, Long, Waiting

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• Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, Differences, Stories

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April, 1994.

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• Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.

  Cat Stevens

  Character, Doubt, Trying

  The Guardian, March 29, 2005.

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• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Suicide, Suicidal, Enemy

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Tools

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

  Silvan Shalom

  Israel, Order, Safety

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• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Usa, America, Citizens

  "Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Damage Is Done, Giving, Definitions

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Years, Thought Provoking

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015

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• You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

  Billy Corgan

  Four, Way, Pumpkin

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• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  Barney Frank

  Yield, Long, Doe

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