Destroys Quotes

524 Destroys quotes by 420 unique authors

Arrogance always destroys opportunity — T.D. Jakes
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving… — Marcel Proust
A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality. — Saul Bellow
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations… — Sigmund Freud
Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits… — Seneca the Younger
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… — Frederick William Robertson
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. — Maria Montessori
What destroys one man preserves another. — Pierre Corneille
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. — Miguel de Unamuno
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it. — Laurence J. Peter
A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself… — Frederick Lenz
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. — Chris Ware
He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light… — Maximus the Confessor
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. — Renata Adler
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the… — Monique Wittig
When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect… — Susan L. Taylor
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I… — Milos Forman
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to… — Adam Young

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