Damage Quotes

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

Grass never grows again where my horse has once trodden.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

War is a contagion.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

To make a State appear necessary, any would-be State must first destroy the natural order and create a Hobbesian "anarchy" characterized by looting and vandalizing.

Extremism destroyed those before you.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.