Damage Quotes - Page 39

• Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.

  Rachel Caine

  Grandma, Thinking, Waiting

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• I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

  Epictetus

  Thinking, Who I Am, Laughing

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• For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.

  Dorothy Allison

  Wall, Pain, Fall

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• To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

  Anne Perry

  Love, Blessing, Soul

  Anne Perry (2013). “Tathea”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• The opinions of others cannot damage you.

  Veronica Roth

  Opinion

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• Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

  Phil Foglio

  Thinking, Hands, Iron

  Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.” He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. “When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Epidemics, Discovery

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• I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty manly, huh?

  Richelle Mead

  Honor, Devil, Stories

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• The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Car, Kitchen, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This, it could go on forever.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Pain, Fall, Love Is

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

  Kristin Cashore

  Ambition, Risk, Lawlessness

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Hands Up, Brain

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• Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Memories, Loss, Way

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• I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you." He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone." "I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss.

  Darynda Jones

  Memories, Powerful, Loss

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• While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

  Bell Hooks

  Betrayal, Lying, Emotional

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• That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Broken, Kind, Ultimate

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.493, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Long, Done

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving On, Hope, Hard Times

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, p. 526, 2013.

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• There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Adversity, Men, Two

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• Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Exercise, Smoking, Done

  Kenneth H. Cooper (1986). “Running without fear: how to reduce the risk of heart attack and sudden death during aerobic exercise”, Bantam

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• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Thinking, Religion

  "What I Believe". "The Forum", 84, (p. 139), September 1930.

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• I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Brain, Religion, Belief

  "Your Religious Upbringing Doesn't Make Your Religion True or False" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Earth Day, Spirit

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Community, World, Sacred

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• Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

  Tom DeMarco

  Children, Analysis, Computer

  Tom DeMarco (1978). “Structured analysis and system specification”, Yourdon Press

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