Damage Quotes - Page 36

• Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

  Warren Ellis

  Dog, Eight, Air

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• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Children, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

  Elvis Costello

  Scare, Songwriting, Knows

  Song: Accidents Will Happen, Album: Armed Forces, 1979

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• Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you gone crazy? They'll..." Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing." "Exactly," said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height." "Let's drop rocks on them!

  Christopher Paolini

  Crazy, Rocks, Voice

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• Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Boys, Brain, Tasks

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

  Aldo Leopold

  Believe, Doctors, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Humans, Persons

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 14, 2012

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• He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Receiving, World, Body

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• If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

  Peter Kreeft

  Real, Evil, Choices

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.55, Ignatius Press

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• A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Dad, Block

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• Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Mirrors, Voice

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

  Neal Shusterman

  Brain, Enlightenment, World

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.145, Penguin

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• Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

  Jack London

  Dog, Fighting, Two

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.134, Lulu.com

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Hate, Healthy, Hated

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• Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.

  Karen Chance

  Irritation, Meat, Doe

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• But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Home, Voice

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• Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupidity, Bias, Unconscious

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Swings, Mad

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• One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Pain, Blessing

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.173, St. Martin's Press

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• But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, People, What If

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• Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

  Theodore Roethke

  Art, Mean, Haste

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.123, Copper Canyon Press

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• This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Teaching, Fire, Damage Control

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• A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Suffering, Angry

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

  Robert Cormier

  Animal, Knowing, World

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.254, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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