Destroyed Quote by Lionel

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind,…

— William Wordsworth

Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction…

— Edward Gibbon

The American empire should be destroyed.

— Aleksandr Dugin

Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

— Robert Whittaker

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able…

— Lawrence Wright

“You talking about computer weaknesses?" "Yes. But also human weaknesses." "Meaning what?" "Meaning the types of weaknesses that make humans let down their guard.…

— Chris Pavone

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart.”

— Nikki rowe

You can't abuse your body and you need to work hard on your weaknesses. Everyone likes to focus on the things they are good…

— Pat LaFontaine

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart,…

— Jean de la Bruyere