Top 277 Damage Quotes

The time that people aren’t expecting what’s going to happen, I find that’s the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
Marilyn Manson
Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina’s heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
Ellen Tauscher
The most important thing to understand about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement is, whilst it undeniably damages the rest of the world, it does most damage to America itself.
Barry Gardiner
If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people’s psychological damage which they might project onto us.
Sophie Hannah
You can’t really be one-dimensional in this fight game. If you are, you’re going to get knocked out or you’re going to get finished. Either that, or you’re just going to take a lot of damage and you’re just not going to be able to last very long.
Tony Ferguson
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
Ron Silver
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it’s a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.
Rachel Riley
It’s also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America’s reputation and prestige around the world; and that’s just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Peter Singer
Ay – ‘The Green Fool’ business, the libel action over the head of it – did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Patrick Kavanagh
Even though there wasn’t much damage, it’s a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Within a day of wearing the insoles, my feet felt more comfortable, and a week later I was able to go for walks, play golf, and play football with my son, which I hadn’t for years. The insole is sculpted to the foot and manipulates it into the correct position, preventing damage to the plantar fascia tissue.
Jimmy White
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited – we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
Eliot Spitzer
Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.
Eric Metaxas
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try

Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.
Andy Jassy
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
Sylvia Earle
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
Les Aspin
Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.
David Petraeus
When you got mechanisms in a car that prevent damage from happening to the engine and that operate under very specific circumstances, those things are exceptions under normal operating conditions of the car; under the rules, they need to be disclosed.
Sergio Marchionne
I think you can do as much damage to yourself going to the gym and running as you do good. So my mission in life is just to keep myself ‘good’ – in good health, as fit as I can be, a little bit of stretching, and just think positive and enjoy life.
Anita Dobson
Using a big word like ‘plagiarism’… always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Michel Houellebecq
My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
Walter Kohn
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
will.i.am
What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime – not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.
Thomas Pogge
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it’s a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
Antoni Tapies
The lion’s share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
Enda Kenny
Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.
Seth Moulton
I understand there’s damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That’s fine.
Ndamukong Suh
I have permanent damage to my facial nerves. I went to the UCLA Movement Disorder Clinic, and after two years of tests and constant monitoring they have finally found the right medication that keeps the spasms under control.
Gabrielle Carteris
The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
Norm Dicks
In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public’s idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.
Brianna Wu
We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy’s done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
Anthony Holden
Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.
Shaun Alexander
It’s something I advise young fighters: Get it while the getting’s good. Take care of yourself financially. Be smart and save your money and protect your damn head, dude. Try to take as little damage as possible, especially training.
Carlos Condit
I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
Pam Bondi
A long break can cause long-term damage to a player’s technique. It can be dangerous for a snooker player to go 2-3 months without even touching a cue.
Neil Robertson
The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.
Theodore C. Sorensen
I regret the 1998 – 99 lockout. I regret that we didn’t work harder to educate our players and our owners about what the damage would be. I never can quite come up with the answer on what else we should have done, but I always blame a part of the problem on us and some part on the players.
David Stern
The truth is that a number of us have been saying for quite some time that it was only a matter of time until someone went to a gun show, bought a military-like semi-automatic assault weapon with a large capacity magazine, and did enormous damage.
David Petraeus
Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn’t, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister, we will get a devastating hard Brexit which will cause huge damage to our economy for generations to come. And I am not prepared to sit by any longer and put up with this nonsense.
Anna Soubry
I generally encourage people to make good on debts when they have enough money to repay them. But once a delinquency has been reported to a collection agency, paying it off won’t help your FICO score. The damage has already been done, and the blemish will remain on your credit report for seven years.
Suze Orman
Hostile states’ use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.
Gina Haspel
With longevity comes, ‘Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.’ Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.
Holly Hunter
I am one of the guys who really capitalized on the ground-and-pound game and am very vicious on the ground. I let go of a lot of elbows and cause a lot of damage.
Tito Ortiz
God is faithful. My heart is strong. I have no heart da

God is faithful. My heart is strong. I have no heart damage. My arteries are not blocked. There is no arterial damage.
Benny Hinn
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.
Aubrey de Grey
I don’t think you should ever damage other people for your art.
Carey Mulligan
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
Bruce Schneier
Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.
Lindsey Graham