Destroying famous quotes

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
-- Alan Paton

#Goes On #Destroying #Family Life

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.
-- Ayn Rand

#Rights #Choices #Destroying

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
-- Barbara Deming

#Giving #Emotion #Destroying

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?
-- Charles Bukowski

#Destroying

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.
-- Christopher Pike

#Age #Problem #Destroying

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Spirit #Destroying

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
-- Clifford Geertz

#Destroying #Scholar #Employed

We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.
-- Denis Halliday

#Simple #Process #Destroying

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
-- Ella T. Grasso

#Dollars #Cost #Destroying

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.
-- Emily Blunt

#People #Soul #Destroying

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Destiny #Earth #Destroying

Destroying America will be the culmination of my life's work.
-- George Soros

#America #Destroying #Culmination

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.
-- Hank Green

#People #Challenges #Destroying

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
-- Harry Golden

#Destroying #Tolerate #Conservatism

Capitalism is destroying the earth.
-- Helen Caldicott

#Earth #Destroying #Capitalism

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.
-- Janis Joplin

#Thinking #Destroying #Enjoy

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
-- John Connolly

#Hurt #Littles #Destroying

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
-- John M. McHugh

#Dollars #Environment #Destroying

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
-- John Mason Brown

#Children #Reason #Destroying

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Father #Opposites #Destroying

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Superstitions #Destroying

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Death #Effectiveness #Destroying

To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Government #Cities #Destroying

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,
-- Mildred Fay Jefferson

#Doctors #Accepting #Destroying

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Airports #Destroying #Force

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
-- Moses Sofer

#Feminist #World #Destroying

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.
-- Natsuo Kirino

#Responsible #Destroying

We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves
-- Otto Frank

#Needs #Nazi #Destroying

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
-- Paul Begala

#Opponents #Destroying

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
-- R. D. Laing

#Love #Violence #Destroying

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
-- R. Scott Bakker

#Fun #World #Destroying

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-- Ralph Steadman

#Selfish #Force #Destroying

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
-- Richard J. Foster

#Simplicity #Destroying #Possession

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.
-- Rick Owens

#Landscape #Destroying

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything
-- Robin Quivers

#Nuclear #Destroying #Explosions

I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
-- Shinya Yamanaka

#Research #Way #Destroying

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.
-- Steven Gerrard

#Motivational #Creative #Destroying

Destroying things is much easier than making them.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Inspirational #Easier #Destroying

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
-- Tony Robbins

#Score #Destroying #Minutes

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me
-- Tracey Emin

#Dancing #Destroying

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
-- Vandana Shiva

#Investment #Planets #Destroying

I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all
-- Vinnie Paz

#War #Horror #Destroying

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.
-- Wally Wood

#Editors #Destroying #Dedicated

Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
-- William D. Leahy

#Children #War #Destroying

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
-- William Devane

#Faces #Aging #Destroying

The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying.
-- Ronnie Apteker

#Soul #Destroying #Dangerous

I wish I could have built without destroying things.
-- Sergei Polunin

#Wish #Destroying #Destroying Things

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.
-- Sergei Polunin

#Wish #Destroying #Destroying Things

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.
-- Terence Koh

#Art #Internet #Destroying

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
-- Adam Phillips

#Needs #Belief #Destroying

I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.
-- Arie de Geus

#Saving #Underestimate #Destroying

I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'
-- Roland Emmerich

#Running #Destroying #Finished

I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
-- Shinya Yamanaka

#Research #Way #Destroying

For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.
-- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

#Names #Unity #Destroying