Destroys Quotes
524 quotes by 433 authors
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or…
— Saint Basil
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental…
— David Bowie
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
— Sitting Bull
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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys…
— Raymond Chandler
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism…
— Hugo Chavez
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
— John Cleese
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
— Seneca the Younger
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant…
— Bruce Van Voorhis
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The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others,…
— Terry Waite
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Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
— James A. Baldwin
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The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every…
— John Peter Altgeld
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
— John Milton
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