Damage Quotes - Page 25

• The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.

  Minoru Mori

  Cities, Environmental, Population

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• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.

  Walther von der Vogelweide

  Girl, Song, Flower

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• If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

  Terry Waite

  Love, Life, Family

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• 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Night, Careers

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

  Albert Einstein

  Army, Fighting, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Impact

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• We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

  Emma Watson

  Trying, Watson

  "25 Times Emma Watson Was Our Girl Crush" by Sam Reed, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.

  Demetri Martin

  Rocks, Break Through, Paper

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  Sam Donaldson

  Two, Trying, President

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

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• Karl Rove thinks we shouldn’t have Hillary Clinton in the White House because she fell and hit her head a couple years ago, spent three days in the hospital, and maybe she has brain damage. You know, I don’t recall the Republicans being this concerned with mental fitness during the years when Reagan was talking to house plants in the White House.

  Bill Maher

  Couple, Thinking, Talking

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• There are three versions of the hook. There's one that's solid metal and it's really heavy. It's sharp. It's not super sharp but it has a point, and because of the weight you could do some serious damage with it. And then there's an aluminium one which is a bit lighter, and then there's a rubber one for if you're to do stunts or there's any danger of cutting someone. Although sometimes I like to switch it out! It's the perfect coffee cup holder - it's literally the exact size. And if you've only got one hand and you're holding some food, it's great to put it on.

  Colin O'Donoghue

  Coffee, Cutting, Hands

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• A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

  Hiromi

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

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• Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Latin, Heart, America

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• You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

  Ryan Holiday

  Hard Work, Character, Culture

  Ryan Holiday (2012). “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.201, Penguin

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• Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

  Luis Fernando Verissimo

  Dog, Fighting, Intellectual

  Luís Fernando Veríssimo (2004). “Borges and the eternal orang-utans”, Vintage

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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• Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Ideas, Anxiety

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• When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Growing Up, House, Magic

  Josef Helfenstein, Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober (1991). “Parkett”

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• When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems and allow the body's natural regenerative capacities to work for us. Instead of being taxed and depleted, our mental and emotional systems are renewed. As a consequence, they are better able to ward off future "energy eaters" like stress, anxiety and anger before they take hold.

  Howard Martin

  Stress, Anger, Heart

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• Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Light, Duration

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Men, Sight

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

  Thom Yorke

  Dancing, Tasers, Concerts

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