Damage Quotes

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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. — Barbara Kingsolver
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… — Arundhati Roy
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. — Henry Ward Beecher
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble… — William Faulkner
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung — Abraham Lincoln
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. — Erma Bombeck
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you? — Scott Westerfeld
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where… — Warren Ellis
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a… — Mitch Albom
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so. — Elvis Costello
Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you… — Christopher Paolini
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the… — A. J. Jacobs
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land… — Aldo Leopold
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another… — Haruki Murakami
He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to… — Lisa Kleypas
If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be… — Peter Kreeft
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of… — Mike Yaconelli
In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. — Neal Shusterman
Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single… — Jack London

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