Damage Quotes - Page 37

• The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Play, Roles

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.84, Vintage

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• What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Imagination, Laughing

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

  Alice Sebold

  Ignorant, Time And Change, Layers

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• I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Sleep, Wake Up

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• When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

  Jordan Belfort

  Motivational, Success, Empowering

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2015

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• Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

  Ted Chiang

  Ideas, Brain, Matter

  Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival: Film tie-in”, p.195, Pan Macmillan

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• Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Long, Bird

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Yeah, but you’re a god of fate. Can’t you change that? (Kat) You’re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are. It’s like the mechanic who goes to fix the carburetor and in doing so accidentally puts a hole in the radiator and causes even more damage. Every person on this planet is connected. Sometimes those lines are easy to see, and others are more complex. You change one insignificant thing and you change the very core of humanity. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Fate, Simple

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• In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

  Lev Grossman

  Pain, Fall, Fighting

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.257, Penguin

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• I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Focus, Trying, Pants

  Alexandra Ivy (2010). “Beyond the Darkness”, p.46, Zebra Books

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• How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn’t damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Cutting, Bruises

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.802, Macmillan

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• Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, War, Heart

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

  George Carlin

  Brain, Littles, Helping

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.88, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

  Derrick Jensen

  Responsibility, Civilization, Lifestyle Choices

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• In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Beautiful, Light, Computer

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses the right combination of qualities for you.You can turn your Ballister stare upon me all you like, but you can't petrify me. You can knock me about to your heart's content without worrying about doing any damage. You can perpetrate any sort of outrage your wicked mind conceives and be sure I'll join in, with a will. You're a troublemaker, Lydia. A Ballister devil. Nothing less than a Mallory hellion would ever suit you." - Vere Mallory -

  Loretta Chase

  Heart, Men, Suits You

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• The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Imperfection, Fatigue

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Knowing, Government

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Badass, Bad Ass

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• We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

  Ann Aguirre

  Broken, Way, Rendering

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.14, Penguin

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• He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression." But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students." Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Fun, Expression, Peaceful

  "After Ever After". Book by Jordan Sonnenblick, 2012.

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• Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it out.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cutting, Woven, Able

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.216, St. Martin's Press

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• ...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

  Henry Jenkins

  Fans, Culture, Fiction

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• You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Please, Burglars

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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