Destroys Quotes

524 Destroys quotes by 420 unique authors

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… — Hannah Arendt
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. — Vladimir Nabokov
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the… — James Allen
Hate destroys the hater... — Martin Luther King, Jr.
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This… — Gao Xingjian
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a… — Christopher Morley
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you… — William P. Young
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. — Aleister Crowley
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like… — Grace Metalious
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It… — Kay Redfield Jamison
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… — Fernando Pessoa
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. — Doris Lessing
the beast is the monster that destroys your dream — Walter Dean Myers
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes… — Victor Hugo
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.… — Kat Richardson
Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. — Lorrie Moore
Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It’s not the pain that’s inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It’s the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don’t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Jealousy can’t sour someone to this extreme, can it? (Aiden) It can and it does. Believe me. I’ve seen a lot worse than this in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis) You know better. You’ve tutored me too well on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find… — P. C. Cast

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