Destroying Quotes

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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's… — Lois McMaster Bujold
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make… — Ayn Rand
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found… — Charles Darwin
Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Destroying things is much easier than making them. — Suzanne Collins
Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed… — Frank Beddor
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind — Ayn Rand
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. — Jonathan Swift
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom. — Cynthia Rylant
I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping… — Tim O'Brien
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I… — Milton Friedman
Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend… — Jeanette Winterson
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless… — Darren Shan
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. Whatâ€™s there to like? (Solin) Thereâ€™s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew… — Ilona Andrews
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. — John Connolly
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the… — Judith Martin
A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy,… — Richard K. Morgan
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things. — Maggie Stiefvater

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