Quotes about Damaged

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people. Votes: 3

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. Votes: 3

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. Votes: 3

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. Votes: 3

I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical. Votes: 3

We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community. Votes: 3

Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality. Votes: 3

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. Votes: 2

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. Votes: 2

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. Votes: 2

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. Votes: 2

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Votes: 2

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. Votes: 2

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard. Votes: 2

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain. Votes: 2

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out. Votes: 2

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman. Votes: 2

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. Votes: 2

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading. Votes: 2

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously. Votes: 2

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. Votes: 2

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl. Votes: 2

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly. Votes: 2

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability. Votes: 2

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch. Votes: 2

People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo. Votes: 2

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. Votes: 2

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people. Votes: 2

In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. Votes: 2

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it. Votes: 2

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. Votes: 2

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. Votes: 2

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Votes: 2

Everybody's damaged by something. Votes: 0

The damaged loves the damaged. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters. Votes: 0

We cannot be damaged into health. Votes: 0

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods. Votes: 0

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed. Votes: 0

The damaged love the damaged. True fact. Votes: 0

We are all damaged goods in recovery. Votes: 0

I am an adult, but a damaged one. Votes: 0

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run. Votes: 0

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty Votes: 0

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type. Votes: 0

Some of us are just less damaged than others. Votes: 0

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. Votes: 0

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends Votes: 0

It was my dream Not its failure that damaged me Votes: 0

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. Votes: 0

I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness. Votes: 0

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. Votes: 0

You can be for something and still be damaged by it. Votes: 0

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That's what matters.' Votes: 0

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult. Votes: 0

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done Votes: 0

The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing. Votes: 0

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. Votes: 0

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird Votes: 0

She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. Votes: 0

For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged. Votes: 0

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace? Votes: 0

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. Votes: 0

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun Votes: 0

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets. Votes: 0

I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. Votes: 0

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe. Votes: 0

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. Votes: 0

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. Votes: 0

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons. Votes: 0

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up. Votes: 0

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. Votes: 0

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality. Votes: 0

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human. Votes: 0

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? Votes: 0

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. Votes: 0

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy. Votes: 0

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. Votes: 0

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective. Votes: 0

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world Votes: 0

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. Votes: 0

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships. Votes: 0

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? Votes: 0

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses. Votes: 0

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged. Votes: 0

Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day. Votes: 0

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. Votes: 0

Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain. Votes: 0

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. Votes: 0

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. Votes: 0

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. Votes: 0

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us. Votes: 0

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage. Votes: 0

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. Votes: 0

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years. Votes: 0

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? Votes: 0

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life~? Votes: 0

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets. Votes: 0

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged. Votes: 0

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation. Votes: 0

His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.... Votes: 0

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable'my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't. Votes: 0

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. Votes: 0

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail. Votes: 0

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope! Votes: 0

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself. Votes: 0

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? Votes: 0

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss. Votes: 0

The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men. Votes: 0

People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being. Votes: 0

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. Votes: 0

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. Votes: 0

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged. Votes: 0

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes Votes: 0

As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later. Votes: 0

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled. Votes: 0

Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible. Votes: 0

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. Votes: 0

After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part. Votes: 0

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives. Votes: 0

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods. Votes: 0

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand. Votes: 0

Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy. Votes: 0

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it. Votes: 0

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party. Votes: 0

Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style. Votes: 0

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did. Votes: 0

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones. Votes: 0

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped. Votes: 0

I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell. Votes: 0

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. Votes: 0

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln. Votes: 0

Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more. Votes: 0

Raphael, tell him you won't do anything to him if I get "˜damaged.' " "That would be a lie, Elena. I would tear out his throat. Votes: 0

When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged. Votes: 0

What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand. Votes: 0

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are. Votes: 0

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny. Votes: 0

People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain. Votes: 0

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others. Votes: 0

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created. Votes: 0

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant. Votes: 0

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much. Votes: 0

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting. Votes: 0

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind. Votes: 0

I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier. Votes: 0

Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed. Votes: 0

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it. Votes: 0

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world. Votes: 0

The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God. Votes: 0

Driven, damaged and dangerous, FBI agent Mercy Gunderson is one of the best female leads to come down the pike since Eve Dallas. Lori Armstrong delivers the goods with MERCILESS. Votes: 0

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans. Votes: 0

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival. Votes: 0

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me. Votes: 0

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors. Votes: 0

Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted. Votes: 0

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me. Votes: 0

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble. Votes: 0

Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, "I still dream about you." "I have nightmares about you." I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside. Votes: 0

"One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation." Votes: 0

To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily. Votes: 0

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit. Votes: 0

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand. Votes: 0

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time. Votes: 0

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. Votes: 0

Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato. Votes: 0

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates. Votes: 0

I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence. Votes: 0

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality. Votes: 0

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar. Votes: 0

I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that. Votes: 0

Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other's eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something to do with being married, no doubt. Perhaps it damaged the brain. Votes: 0

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe. Votes: 0

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types. Votes: 0

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc. Votes: 0

Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs. Votes: 0

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. Votes: 0

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything. Votes: 0

I don't know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing. Votes: 0

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. Votes: 0