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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

  Rod Paige

  Character, Get Involved, Involved

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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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• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

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

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• When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

  Terry Southern

  Christian, Damage Control, Magic

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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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• 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 most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

  Dennis Gabor

  Science, Technology, Yesterday

  1970 Innovations.

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• It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

  Peter Singer

  Home, Iraq, America

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• When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

  J. William Fulbright

  Law, Long, May

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.114, Random House

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• Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Faults, Harm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.301, Library of America

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