Destruction Quotes · Page 18

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

— Ravi Zacharias

“Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

— Jon Foreman

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

— Taiichi Ohno

“To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.”

— Sunday Adelaja

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

— James A. Baldwin

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

— Courtney Love

“There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes things get messed up with the intentions of creating a greater opportunity to your life.

— Anmol Andore

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

— Jean Baudrillard

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

— Jonathan Davis

“What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

— Harold Pinter

How brittle life is, yet it's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay…

— Peter Stormare

“Anyone who would rejoice to see someone else live a life of destruction is also, living an unrighteous life.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death…

— Edith Sitwell

“DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom. MORPHEUS: And…

— Neil Gaiman

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction,…

— Starhawk

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but…

— Anonymous

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks…

— Homer

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of…

— Edward Kennedy

“[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a…

— Iain Pears

But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was…

— Raul Hilberg

“A tremendous thunderclap was heard, the loudest there has ever been ... The sun remained hidden behind dark clouds, and there was…

— Richard Erdoes

One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons…

— Graham T. Allison

What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet…

— William J. Clinton

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can…

— Michael Chabon

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,…

— Satish Kumar

All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a…

— Kevin DeYoung

It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.

— Hilda Doolittle

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

— Barry Goldwater

“We are causing war and destruction among ourselves for all the wrong reasons.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“Eradicating ignorance through the establishment of information centers.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

— Dave Navarro

“There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?”

— Megan Abbott