Lasting Damage Quotes

The trashing and trampling of comity leaves ugly scars that are sure to fester and linger.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

The reputation of a woman is like glass; once cracked, it cannot be repaired.

You can do something almost any minutes that will ruin you, no matter how good you have been.

It's the subconcussive hits, the constant bam, bam, bam that linemen like Suh give and receive. Those are the hits scientists say cause the lasting damage to the brain, the kind of injuries that made guys like Mike Webster, Terry Long, and so many others go crazy. The subconcussive hits - every single play.

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.

That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.