Destroyed Quotes · Page 27

I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that…

— Malcolm X

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist…

— Fernando Pessoa

Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way…

— Abu Bakar Bashir

I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally…

— Gretl Braun

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives…

— Emmet Gowin

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

— Jeffrey Sachs

There had been a head of the FDA (who later turned out to be a fraud) his name was Fishbein and he…

— Gary Null

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and…

— John Legend

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on…

— Nikolaj Velimirovic

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's…

— Dennis Hopper

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

— Alexander Hamilton

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.…

— Ben Katchor

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the…

— Richard de Bury

The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war…

— Albert Pike

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's…

— Lawrence Jackson

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

— Pierre Boulez

When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline…

— Vandana Shiva

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed…

— Mary Oliver

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru…

— Paul Watson

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into…

— Clive Anderson

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.

— Nas

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with…

— Noam Chomsky