Age Quote by Walter Benjamin

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying…

— Walter Benjamin

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

— Walter Benjamin

Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres…

— Twiggy

So what is the role that credit default swaps can play in an economy? Well my feeling is that if these things actually will…

— Robert F. Engle

If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom…

— Frederick Lenz

Tessa exhaled. She hadn't realized that she had been holding her breath until that moment. Will must have heard her, for he raised his…

— Cassandra Clare

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many…

— Margaret Heffernan

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an…

— Colin Powell

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

— Ming-Dao Deng

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know…

— Donald Ray Pollock