Damage Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.

  Caryl Churchill

  Writing, Play, People

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• The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

  Beverley Nichols

  Soul, Body, Sake

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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• I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

  Owen Wister

  Soul, Truth Is, Malpractice

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence trick ever tried the damage would be fairly minimal. But the problem is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of doctors believe the lie that they are taught; they believe that they are scientists, practising an applied science.

  Vernon Coleman

  Lying, Believe, Successful

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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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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Office, Energy, Cost

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• I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.

  John Chafee

  Thinking, Oil, Sitting

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• It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Ignorance, Doe

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• And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Car

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• Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.

  William Barrett

  Dirty, Oil, California

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• Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Events, Influence, Lifetime

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• We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Order, Faults

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• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

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• It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

  Marya Mannes

  Children, Television, Fantasy

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• There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

  Capers Jones

  Way, Projects, Software

  Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.292, McGraw Hill Professional

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• When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

  Mark Stevenson

  Exercise, Renaissance, Cases

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• I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

  Cee Lo Green

  Be You, Knows, If I Could

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.

  Sandra Postel

  Science, Water, Cost

  Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst

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• History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Damage Is Done, History Repeats Itself, Cunning

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

  Robert James Waller

  War, Talking, Long

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