Destroying Quotes

568 quotes by 459 authors

...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of… — John Gardner
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. — Alan Paton
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it. — Patricia Briggs
I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it… — Mahatma Gandhi
And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world… — Joss Whedon
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting,… — Albert Schweitzer
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is… — Lyall Watson
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. — Gloria Steinem
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed,… — Scott Westerfeld
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common… — Linda Howard
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant… — Jeannette Walls
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq… — Robert Baer
You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?â€ called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. â€œAbove such brutality, are you?â€ â€œWe both know that there are… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. — Rachel Carson
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates… — Walter Benjamin
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. — John Updike

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