Destroying Quotes · Page 9

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

— William Maxwell

“This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves.”

— Brent Weeks

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

— Malala Yousafzai

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

— Arthur Miller

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

— John Dryden

Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.

— Bryan Kest

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

— Randy Alcorn

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an…

— Abraham Lincoln

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got…

— Ellen DeGeneres

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're…

— Assata Shakur

Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off…

— John Brunner

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that…

— Howard Zinn

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being,…

— Frederick Lenz

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death…

— Ivan Turgenev

I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we…

— John McCain

We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant…

— Patrick Bergin

What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling…

— Mirah

[Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are…

— Barack Obama

I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker…

— Nat Hentoff

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do…

— Pablo Picasso

Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc,…

— Frank Beddor

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying…

— Haruki Murakami

“We could be something amazing- or we could end up destroying each other.”

— Ivy Devlin

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

— Jonathan Swift

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

— Donald Trump

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

— Noam Chomsky

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

— John Kricfalusi

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

— Pierre Cardin

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

— James Frey

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

— Sergey Biryuzov

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

— Richard J. Foster

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

— Paul Hawken

Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.

— Stella McCartney

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

— Rajneesh

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

— Hilaire Belloc

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen