Destroys Quotes
524 Destroys quotes by 420 unique authors
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And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward…
— Cassandra Clare
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Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that…
— Timothy Keller
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In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents,…
— Paul Tillich
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It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
— Imran Khan
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There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish…
— Cheryl Strayed
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There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
— Coco Chanel
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Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
— George Carlin
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
— Thomas Harris
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All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
— Immanuel Kant
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I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.
— Neal Shusterman
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of:…
— Dick Gregory
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
— Stendhal
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For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me
— Christopher Paolini
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But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.
— Nalini Singh
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Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of…
— Paulo Coelho
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There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish…
— Cheryl Strayed
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does…
— Plutarch
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
— Chanakya
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
— Seneca the Younger
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its…
— August Strindberg
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear.…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the…
— Albert Einstein
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice,…
— Anne Bogart
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