Top 1200 Damage Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.

The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they're going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn't true.

I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don't have control over.

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

A Brexit with a poor outcome will damage our country and lead to years of further division.

Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.

One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.

The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

I have written time and again about the damage the Republican Party has done to itself with the millennial generation.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

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

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

My favorite change is taking traction control away and launch control, because my starts are pretty good, I think, and I make always some places up in the start and I think that will be great if that comes back to the driver's hand.

There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act.

The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it's not genuine.

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.

President Obama has done more damage to America than any American has since 1776

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.

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.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.

Only for practical reasons. To find out if I said something stupid in an interview. So I can limit the damage.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.