Quotes of Damaged - somelinesforyou

“ His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity. ”

- John Ballantine Gough

“ The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. ”

- Willa Lather

“ The bodies lay on the ground like damaged goods from a warehouse. ”

- Peter Goldman

“ Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ What distinguishes war is, not that man is slain, but that he is slain, spoiled, crushed by the cruelty, the injustice, the treachery, the murderous hand of man. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity. ”

- John Ballantine Gough

“ It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby ”

- Phyllis Schafly

“ Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology… has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth… ”

- William Commanda

“ When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. ”

- Simone Weil
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