Damage Quotes - Page 5

• I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Character

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of what seemed like mutual appraisal. For me, it was like being at a regatta, sizing up the competition on the dock before climbing into the shells. Could I take him? ... He could inflict serious damage. I sensed that. But he would be unfamiliar with rowers - men used to toiling backwards, blindly, trained, most of all, to endure.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Eye, Men, Climbing

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

  Idries Shah

  Kindness, Mean, Exercise

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.91, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

  Laurence Tribe

  Real, Believe, Character

  "Supreme Court in a no-win position on Obamacare?" By David Gergen, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Math, Names

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.224, Mark Twain

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• The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.

  Byron York

  Party, White, Two

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• All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.

  James Gosling

  Running, Hurt, Tools

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• What strikes the oyster shell
  doesn't damage the pearl.

  Rumi

  Oysters, Shells, Pearls

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

  Mark Twain

  Blow, Wind, House

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Medicine, Bigs, Fooled

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• I've seen the needle
  And the damage done
  A little part of it in everyone
  But every junkie's
  Like a settin' sun.

  Neil Young

  Done, Littles, Sun

  Song: The Needle and the Damage Done

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• Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God.

  Martin Luther

  Angel, Errors, Heaven

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Islamic, Thug, Avenging

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

  Danny Bonaduce

  People, Want, Young

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• Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Vanity, Imagination

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• Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.

  J. D. Greear

  Damage Is Done, Life And Death, Essentials

  Joshua Harris, J. D. Greear (2013). “Humble Orthodoxy: Holding the Truth High Without Putting People Down”, p.1, Multnomah

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• What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Intelligent, Law, Injury

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• This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

  Sylvia Earle

  Nature, Sea, Way

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• When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, Pieces, Littles

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• The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

  Ariana Franklin

  Love, Beautiful, Art

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• Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Vaccines, Pneumonia, Brain

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• They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

  James Carville

  People, Together, Rooftops

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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