Damaging Quotes
183 Damaging quotes by 162 unique authors
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She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it…
— Cassandra Clare
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A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must…
— Martha Stout
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She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it…
— Sarah MacLean
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be…
— Henry Cloud
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Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that…
— N. T. Wright
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Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and…
— Seymour Papert
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I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their…
— Seymour Papert
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I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out…
— Katie Couric
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to…
— Enric Sala
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The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police…
— Geoff Mulgan
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If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you…
— Heather Brooke
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the…
— Randy Schekman
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A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
— Grover Norquist
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Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.
— David Perlmutter
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Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle…
— Seth Shostak
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The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing…
— Elliott Abrams
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I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever…
— Stephen Stills
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Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights…
— Jose Rizal
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East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states…
— Matt Cartwright
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Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.
— Unknown Author
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People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even…
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
— Chen Guangbiao
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It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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