If I rush into anything, if I damage her, then it's always gonna be damaged.
It's too weak so I may be paralyzed from neck down if I damage my spinal cord.
One can then speak, respectively, of a mode-I, mode-II, or mixed I/II damage mechanisms if use is made of the terminology adopted in fracture mechanics.
I realize I would be heartbroken if I'd damaged it.
My ovary eventually returned to its normal size, but I wondered if I had damaged my body.
I've been asked if I was damaged by my family life, and the answer is a qualified no; I know I'll never marry, and, halfway through my life, I'm unable to imagine letting anyone new stay in my house for more than a night — and preferably not a whole night.
Like a goat in a cattle drive, I was jostled by a delivery van on Ninth Avenue, went over my handlebars because of an out-of-town driver on Seventh, and was casually bumped into by a limousine driver on Sixth who stopped and got out to see if I had damaged his side-view mirror, while I lay unattended on the sidewalk.
Lauda, who took over as the Jaguar formula one team principal after ousting Bobby Rahal from the post after this year's Hungarian grand prix, admitted privately: "Some people in the team think I'm mad having a try in the car, but it's my responsibility and nobody else's fault but mine if I should damage it".
I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same.
Something of the emphasis on his "all right" alerted me to the fact that he was asking if I had been damaged in some way I couldn't understand.
