Detriment Quotes

Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

What is to their detriment is to our advantage.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

I'm on a mission. If I can make even one person not enjoy something they're currently enjoying, it's all worth it!

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

When human beings distance themselves from their own inner truth and the truth around them, we can't see ourselves in our true light and that is to our detriment.

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

I'm strong. I'm smart. I'm not a victim,' to my detriment.

The English have found to their detriment how impolitic it is to oppress their subjects.

I'm actually very loyal, to my detriment.

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.

It's terrible, a crutch, isn't it?

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.