Destroys Quotes

524 Destroys quotes by 420 unique authors

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature… — Blaise Pascal
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning… — Stefanie Powers
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. — Joseph Prince
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. — Twyla Tharp
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected… — Paul Valery
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip… — Vivienne Westwood
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… — Edward Abbey
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away. — Robert James Waller
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the… — George Plimpton
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting -… — Ruth Graham
...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience... — Louise Erdrich
I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness. — William Penn
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. — Yukio Mishima
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign… — Daniel Webster
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would… — John Steinbeck
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we… — Paulo Coelho
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. — Graham Greene
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own… — Orhan Pamuk
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. — Oscar Wilde
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it… — Ayn Rand

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