Damaging Quotations

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.

In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.

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.

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to not touch coral, to prevent damaging it.

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.

I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

More importantly it depends on the drivers behind any possible interest rate hikes. Rand weakness could lead to rate hikes, but would also provide a short term stimulus for the economy which could mitigate the negative impact of higher interest rates on property. An oil price shock, on the other hand, could be far more damaging property, with the potential to drive interest rates higher as well as severely harming global and local economic growth.

If we don't do our jobs right, we could be damaging the CBS News brand. We want to make sure that it's as good as anything else CBS News would put out there.

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

Since most women are kind of different from the top-model image, there is a constant losing battle of self-image, ... It's damaging when every woman that's portrayed in the media or who are on the covers of magazines are part of a stereotypical form of beauty, whereas the average woman is not.

Most people will come in with symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. They suffer from depression, maybe panic attacks. They also come in poor, often without a language, not having any kind of support system. They are isolated; they have lost their culture, lost their jobs. They cannot work here because they are not legal. They don't know how to find a place here that copies the work they did before in their countries. Most of the longest-lasting and the most damaging effects are psychological. A lot of medical issues can be healed.

Many companies still seem unwilling to report e-crime for fear of damaging their reputation,

Secure outside items, garbage cans, toys and anything else that could become a damaging object in the air. Anchor them securely or bring them indoors.

She's never been arrested for anything in her life and this has been very damaging to her economically and emotionally.

I would say that the omission is certainly damaging to us.

For some reason, today we're painting the whole picture with a broad brush and a few profit warnings are really damaging that landscape for the companies that are good (performers).

I am desperate to play and if there is a chance I can, even if it is still bothering me, then I will definitely play... it is just whether or not I risk damaging it more.

If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks,

If any of you have ever had blasting near your neighborhood, you would know how damaging it is and how scary it is.

I don't' think we've seen any sign here that there is an urgency to risk damaging the pace of the upturn. Why rush, why panic?

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.

To establish a favorable and well-defined brand personality with the consumer the advertiser must be consistent. You can't use a comic approach today and a scientist in a white jacket tomorrow without diffusing and damaging your brand personality.

Having to look at it almost in retrospect now is also damaging to the restaurant industry, though. I don't imagine anyone's going to be happy to hear that they may have eaten fish in a Chinese restaurant that could have been contaminated.

have the adverse effect of damaging the quality of British soccer.

Her offensive rebounds are what is so damaging to a team. She scores a lot of her points getting offensive rebounds.

Hurricanes Floyd and Irene were cruel reminders that hurricanes can produce tragic loss of life and devastating economic disruption from inland flooding beyond a hurricane's damaging wind, storm surge or tornadoes.

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

If that trend continues, it could be damaging to seasonal growers and could affect their ability to harvest.

If the Congress decides that the priority for this engine is higher than the DoD has proposed, then I'm sure the Congress will be able to soundly and thoughtfully restore the program in a way that will be the least damaging to everything else.

He has to make a credible case that what he's doing isn't damaging the party but, rather, reinvigorating it.

He has no damaging reputation involving human rights.

Hopefully this arrest will continue to shed light on how potentially damaging this controlled substance can be.

I find Paula patronizing. It's as simple as that. Paula is more damaging than I am to these contestants because a lot of people just shouldn't be singing for a living.

Pigs are probably one of the most damaging invasive species.

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

I think Europe has got to face up with America to the fact that protectionist policies are not only damaging the world economy, but damaging in the long run the European and American economies,

It is extremely damaging to U.S. national interests.

It is damaging to the legitimacy of the confirmation process to suggest the examination of a nominee's record, as well as support for or opposition to a nominee, is in any way religiously motivated,

It is disappointing that he is spreading unfounded and damaging claims.

I think it would have been far more damaging if it would have been someone like Karl Rove (who was indicted) but the current controversies swirling in Washington (D.C.) are not a help to the GOP right now.

Joshi has said that the audio cassettes earlier and the CD were being circulated with the intention of damaging the party's reputation. Those who are being the circulation of the CDs should be found and the conspiracy unearthed.

Our children need to know that taking steroids cannot be tolerated. They need to learn the damaging mental and physical side effects of steroids.

It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized.

I was both excited and terrified, ... This was the ultimate dead-end. On the one hand, it would be great if I could find him -? it would be the most remarkable story filled with human drama. Then I was thinking, 'I will never get it.' How do you get someone to talk about the most damaging emotional moments in their life?

I think our main threat today might be some hail, but more damaging winds, not as many tornadoes.

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.

I think that having been abused when she was a child has had a really damaging affect on her adult relationships.

It is not worth it for criminals to take off the tag if they want to go ahead and sell it. Criminals do not want to hassle with it and wind up damaging the laptop.

It could have the perverse effect of throttling private sector investment, thereby damaging the UK economy - putting the very pension schemes the regulator is trying to protect under even more pressure.

It could actually be damaging for the people who need the help in the long term because they are confused where the aid is coming from,

It certainly is damaging to the industry as a whole. What it means is that there's this floating customer base. Every airline has to work harder to attract and retain customers.

The practice of central bankers wearing their hearts on their sleeves is disingenuous or damaging to economic prospects.

The presence of foreign troops is damaging for the Iraqis, and the Iraqi government could ask for their departure by proposing a timetable, ... the US and Britain will eventually have to leave Iraq with a bitter experience.

To have a censor board to read scripts and approve productions that would not only be damaging to us, it would be damaging to the state of Utah.

I would look on such a decision as a violation of mutual commitments made over the years, with a damaging effect on Habitat's reputation and effectiveness,

We have weeded out the deadwood and set about to deal with the internal issues that in the past led to faction building and damaging splits.

Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

That's the least they could do, ... This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

That's the least they could do. This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

That would be seen as a confrontation; it would be hugely damaging to the relationship.

What we attempted to do today was put some more common sense and responsible legislation on the table through the legislative process as opposed to the ballot process to avoid having a very damaging constitutional amendment.

We are talking about the most prolific and damaging spy in U.S. history. Secrets sold, not only from the FBI where he worked, but also from the CIA, the White House, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency.

We very much hope that these sanctions will not be implemented bluntly in a way that would be damaging to the Iranian people, but it is going to be sanctions that will get the attention of the Iranian government.

This worm is not new but it continues to spread and has a damaging payload. We want to urge all computer users to update their antivirus protection before the first trigger date on 3 February.

This storm was quite a bit larger, so the extent of the damaging wind field would have covered a much larger geographic area.

This story is cruel, nonsensical and damaging to the tremendous work she does every day for people living with HIV/AIDS as well as her extraordinary leadership in all of her business ventures.

This study clearly shows a significant positive impact on brand perceptions and purchase intent for luxury auto manufacturers when they master the online experience. For those who don't provide a superior online experience, they are actually damaging their brand and taking the air out of their multi-million dollar advertising campaigns.

We are looking at the possibility of tornadoes and a very good chance of damaging winds. Strong wind gusts will be happening throughout eastern Mississippi and western Alabama.

(We presented the) $600 million plan for the benefit of our rate payers. We thought we had an agreement. The credit agencies, the rating agencies, those are key to us. The more damaging effects to us, the more costly it is to borrow money.

We are not interested in making a huge profit for a week or two at the expense of damaging customer relations for a year or two.

The fact that the independent panel wasn't given the document shows how damaging this really was. It shows the department knew about this long before the problems arose publicly.

We can't predict tornadoes until they happen, but we're looking for strong storms with hail and damaging winds (today). It should be an interesting day.

This result directly reflects the very damaging effects of relegation.

This tacky trade would arguably be less damaging to the public good were it not for the fact that a peerage comes with substantial political influence.

There has to be an understanding that further strengthening of the yen at this stage could be damaging to Japan's economy,

would be damaging to the Constitution because the Senate would fail to try the case. It would be harmful to the body politic because there's no resolution of the issues of the case. But most importantly, it would show willful blindness to the evidentiary record that has thus far been presented.

We're going to continue to aggressively try to defeat what we consider bad legislation. Clearly price controls would kill research and development and ultimately be damaging to patients.

We spent most of the night trying to control the water from damaging our room,

We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography.

I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

The technologies which seem to be receiving interest from the Bank include those with damaging social and environmental impacts, such as nuclear, large dams and so-called 'clean coal'. It is widely understood that these technologies will not help to bring people out of poverty, which is the World Bank's mission.

It would be extremely damaging to the NFL as a brand to move this franchise, because you're going to see over the next year the recovery of New Orleans become equated with American patriotism. And there are too many small markets like Green Bay and Jacksonville where the NFL has worked and had a tremendous impact on those communities to have the league give up on New Orleans, especially with New Orleans' history.

This simply means that the product contains no animal fat, but it does not mean that the food is low in calories or heart damaging trans fat.

To not be ready to host these groups would be very damaging to the city of New Orleans.

The recovery continues to be slow. Government reserves will more than make up for reduced production but they will eventually have to be replaced. This will probably end up being the most damaging storm to the industry by far.