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1168 Destroyed quotes by 891 unique authors

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs… — Charles Addams
I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against… — Gabe Newell
Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I… — C. Everett Koop
This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. — Andy Grove
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life… — Frederick Buechner
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. — Clive Anderson
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It… — John Jay Chapman
To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect… — L. Ron Hubbard
The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody… — Dick Costolo
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog… — John Fire Lame Deer
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped… — Aime Cesaire
It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill… — Larry McMurtry
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But… — Albert Claude
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means. — Pope Pius IX
Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness… — Kenesaw Mountain Landis
After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the… — Andrew Jackson
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed! — Trent Reznor
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What… — Henri Nouwen
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain… — Robert Peel
At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path,… — Carolyn Hart
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams,… — Adam Parfrey

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