Damage Quotes - Page 30

• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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• Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.

  Brené Brown

  Betrayal, Love Is, Two

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.93, Penguin

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• I studied and worked in a Chinese restaurant to support myself. People would say to me 'Oh you must be missing home', but I had grown up hard. I was so happy to be there. I had never even been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

  Wendi Deng Murdoch

  Home, Doors, America

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• Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

  Marshall Rose

  Self Esteem, Punishment, Attention

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• The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

  David Wolfe

  Humanity, Done, Theory

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• Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

  James D. Watson

  Ignorance, Views, Pseudoscience

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• My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Jobs, Real, Storm

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

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• I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Hate, Damage Control, People

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• A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Character, Men, Judging

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• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ocean, Society, Levels

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• Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Science, Leaving, Atmosphere

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.

  Bill Vaughan

  Exercise, Blood, Brain

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• I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

  Bill Vaughan

  Calamity, Magnitude, Tsunami

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• all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Struggle, People, Individuality

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• When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

  Nora Ephron

  Past, Reality, Infidelity

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.64, Vintage

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• It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Selfish, Team

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

  Julia Child

  Grief, Food, Tomatoes

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• If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Claims, Should, Employers

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2011). “Families, Marriages, and Children”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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• I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

  Barack Obama

  War, Nsa, Serious

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• When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Wire, Tvs

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.

  Robert Plant

  Struggle, People, Pockets

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Hero

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Dangerous

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• [On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

  Laurie Colwin

  Children, Thinking, People

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• one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

  Dervla Murphy

  What Matters, Race, Sick

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