Damage Quotes - page 2

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world. (Sun Myung Moon)
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. View quote
Timothy Geithner
Management's job. It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit centre. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying. View quote
Tom Petty
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain. View quote
Henry Rollins
A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow. View quote
Harry Turtledove
With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy. View quote
Yoshijirō Umezu
The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. View quote
Fritz Todt
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
I've seen the needle and the damage done. A little part of it in everyone. But every junkie's like a settin' sun. View quote
Neil Young
Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. (Henry Kissinger)
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors. View quote
Edward Teller
... an author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty. View quote
Évariste Galois
Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character. View quote
Jack McDevitt
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do. View quote
Sam Donaldson
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. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
To state a timetable now would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the changes we are making for Britain and damage the country. View quote
Tony Blair
When the medicine enters the body and stops the pain, the vibrations from the combined substances stop, and the various substances return to their original states, in which they emit their original vibrations. However, if these vibrations happen to damage other cell structures, then harmful side effects will result. View quote
Masaru Emoto
In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. (Aubrey de Grey)
I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed. View quote
Andy Stern
There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn't understand; words that must be released from their trapped place where their flapping to get out could cause internal damage. View quote
Patti Callahan Henry