Injure Quotations

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.

For some reason, every time I peak in my career, I injure myself. So, I'm constantly on the comeback trail.

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself

She's not going to compete. When the time comes, once she's been cleared to really start training, we'll move into that phase. But I'm not going to injure (or risk injuring) an athlete for a minor goal. Logan has a long way to go in her career.

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

No-one likes to injure a fellow professional, but it was a freak accident and it's good news for everybody involved that he's on the road to recovery now.

If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

I think anyone in our society doesn't have a hard time interpreting whether they are being attacked with intent to injure or someone is just playing around.

Our job is ensure that those deals that injure consumers don't go through, ... On the other hand, we don't want to prevent 99 out of the 100 deals that are either neutral from a competitive point of view or actually pro consumer and pro efficiency.

Our manager is always worried that Nicky will injure himself at football. But I don't really mind because there were only 4 members in The Beatles.

Matthew has worked so hard to get his body right, and for him to injure his knee at this time is tragic,

I was not trying to injure anybody. You go down to the big man's area, you're supposed to get banged around. It's a physical area.

You just got to work intelligently. Take that extra step to not injure yourself while working on your equipment.

We fired two warning shots into the air, and we didn't injure anyone.

We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case,

It was the worst pain I think I ever felt in a wrestling match. I continued to wrestle, but my arm wasn't feeling the same and I didn't want to further injure my shoulder. But I just wanted to come out and finish my last match. I did more than I expected to do.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

People condemn boxing constantly. But the truth of the matter is that if you look at how boxing is regulated, even with the smaller commissions, you're going to see that for the most part, if a doctor has diagnosed the symptom that Shaun Alexander has described having, nobody in their right mind would allow them to go back into a situation where he could injure his head again, no sooner than 30 days, and it should be at least 45 days if not longer, depending on how his test results come out and for how long it takes for him to improve.

After I sat out those two years, made a comeback to injure myself midway through last year when everything was going pretty good and then to have to sit out the start of the Super 14, it was pretty tough.

So they don't injure their voices. Basically, screaming is a part of a new up-and-coming generation of real-life rock 'n' rollers where passion and sincerity and reality is absolutely necessary and required. I don't want to see them damage their vocal cords.

You should keep it on the other side of the room so you don't injure yourself trying to get to it.

You're making your cuts, your knee can handle it, but then your mind is like, 'I don't want to push off this hard,' ... You think about it a lot because you don't want to injure it again and go through that same process.

This is another example of excellent police work coupled with excellent medical intervention and evidence. It sends a powerful message to those who injure a child ? any child ? that Clay County will hold you accountable for your actions.

This could be a concealed explosive device without metallic parts. The apparent intention was to injure and scare people.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.''

This is tough for our team, too, because he was one of our leaders. One of the emotional guys out there on the field. He's just an unbelievable guy. At least he didn't injure himself bad. I know that's a blessing for him.

All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished,

It's a severe suspension, five games. Marty is going to be a big loss to our hockey club, ... but having said that, there's no place in hockey for kicking. I'm very sure that Marty is very sorry it happened. I don't think he intended to injure anybody.

They did not injure anybody. Later, shots were fired by unidentified individuals in the same area. I can assure you no individuals were wounded by U.N. peacekeepers.

They work very, very hard. They're physical. They're not afraid. They won't shy away from a ball that potentially could injure them.

I'm going to exercise a lot more, although when you get to a certain age you can injure yourself in training as well.

I'm sure they'll be detonated. These are highly explosive and somewhat unstable in salt water. They could definitely injure anyone near, any diver near there, any person in water, any boat near that explosion.

Intel deliberately sought to injure these companies in order to secure their technology.

In no way, shape or form did I mean to injure Darcy. I finished my check the way I have hundreds of times before. He just happened to hit his head in a bad way.

I play to win. There is absolutely zero intent to injure anybody. That's not me. I'm just glad Johnny's OK. That's the most important thing.

The main thing is, it's not something that I can injure any further. I'd like to get on the mound one more time before Saturday.

The guy probably just needed a ride. He didn't injure the car. He didn't take anything.

The gun lobby's leaders said today in Springfield that banning assault weapons would injure Illinois economically to the tune of $150 million and cost the state 750 jobs. Are Illinois residents really buying $150 million a year worth of assault weapons? If so, I urge the Legislature to move as quickly as possible on this proposal, because we have a bigger problem than we realized.

The league is sending a clear-cut message: We want a great brand of hockey, we want it to be exciting. I think we've reached that goal so far in the season and incidents where there will be an intent to injure or there will be an injury, there will be a price to play.

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious