Destroys Quotes

524 quotes by 433 authors

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
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
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
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
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. — Sitting Bull
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. — Leo Buscaglia
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
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
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger
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
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
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
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
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
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. — James A. Baldwin
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
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
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — John Milton

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