Top 420 Damaging Quotes & Sayings

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

If bad quarterback play is damaging to the XFL, I think it's damaging to any league at any level.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

I feel social media is so damaging to young people, I see it as being extremely dangerous.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche.

A no deal Brexit is a proposal so damaging to our future that it cannot be accepted.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Social media can be so damaging.

A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.

I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

When people speak disparagingly about others, they are really damaging themselves.

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.

Social media can be incredibly damaging for impressionable people.

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Yes, pro wrestling is damaging on your body. It hurts.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

I believe that MPs from all parties must work together to prevent a damaging hard exit.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.

A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.

Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Weight is a number you can change but shaming one self is damaging and toxic.

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