Damaging Quotes

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. (William James)
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does. View quote
Melania Trump
Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you! View quote
Tom Smothers
When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions. View quote
Fred Astaire
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. View quote
Shelley Winters
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. View quote
Jimmy Carter
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. View quote
Nigella Lawson
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. (John Kennedy Toole)
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. View quote
Roy Hattersley
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole. View quote
Joe Biden
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure. View quote
Peter Drucker
To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention. View quote
Masaru Emoto
Acheron: You're really not right, are you? Nick: Yeah. I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it. View quote
Sean MacBride
The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging. View quote
Deborah King
Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism. View quote
David Perlmutter
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes. (Elizabeth George)
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand. View quote
David Talbot
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually. View quote
John M. McHugh
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness. View quote
John Sentamu
When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time. View quote
Natasha Henstridge