When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.
There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty are saying that the president is appointed for a mandate of eight years time. I think it would be very damaging for the European Central Bank if there would be a splitting of this mandate.
Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases
When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. . . I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.
Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche.
Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.
The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way. '
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?
Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. . . . the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.
