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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• Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

  Rick Bragg

  Inspirational, Life, Shells

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.21, Vintage

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

  Brian Lamb

  Easier

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Might, University

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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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• Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Eye, Precious Stones, Honor

  "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman, (p. 411), 1997.

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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 damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

  Camille Paglia

  Damage Is Done, Years, Feckless

  "The President's Healthcare Horror". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 12, 2009.

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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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• The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

  Jim Hightower

  God, Men, Should Have

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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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• Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

  Henry Miller

  Damage Is Done, Joy, Why Not

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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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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• 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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• That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

  June Jordan

  Attitude, Fighting, Political

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