Damaging Quotes

• Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

  

  John Piper
  • Race
  • Issue
  • Damaging

• If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.

  

  Stephen Morris New Order
  • Record
  • Damaging
  • Brick

• The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.

  

  Deborah King
  • Worst
  • Ourselves
  • Damaging

• I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn't go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Drinking
  • Started
  • Passed

• I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Damaging
  • Cannibalism

• Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Perfect
  • Psyche
  • Damaging

• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Believe
  • Child's Mind
  • Critical Words

• Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Wrong
  • Damaging

• When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Attitude
  • Conflict
  • Damaging

• The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

  

  Timothy Geithner
  • Outcomes
  • Range
  • Gradual

• Every time you pull the trigger without protection, you are damaging your hearing. Each and every shot adds up.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Protection
  • Damaging
  • Trigger

• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Memory

• Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.

  

  Alex Pacheco
  • Game
  • Fair
  • Damaging

• If it isn't properly regulated, if people do make false claims, if we find that the market is undermined, it will be very damaging to consumer confidence in the organic sector generally.

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Confidence
  • Claims
  • Regulated

• To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.

  

  Rachel Hollis
  • Business
  • Ridiculous
  • Themselves

• If you carry around a lot of suppressed or repressed anger (anger you have unconsciously buried) you may lash out at people, blaming or punishing them for something someone else did a long time ago. Because you were unwilling or unable to express how you felt in the past, you may overreact in the present, damaging a relationship.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Relationship
  • Anger
  • Punishing

• Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Flowers
  • Village
  • Damaging

• The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Authority
  • Destroyed
  • Dislike

• Whenever I talk about being a feminist or speaking out for equality, it's also about the idea that men are treated with respect. It's not just about treating women like people and not abusing them. You also can't abuse men and you can't say things like, 'Oh, he was just a man. He didn't know any better.' Or 'He's a man, what did you expect?' That's just as abusive and damaging to men, I feel.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Respect
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Planet
  • Changing
  • Acknowledge