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

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong…

— Susan Boyle

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage…

— Veronica Roth

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

— Peter Breggin

The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think…

— Garrison Keillor

Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit…

— Daniel D. Polsby

The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are…

— Eliot Spitzer

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't…

— Ashley Madekwe

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…

— Anonymous

President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military…

— Elliott Abrams

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the…

— Anonymous

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a…

— Leora Tanenbaum

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing…

— J. William Fulbright

This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

— Philip Alston