Quotes with destroyed

  • My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
  • And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
  • Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
  • And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
  • All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
  • History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
  • The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
  • I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
  • With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Kofi Annan Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Louise Erdrich Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Ariel Durant A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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  • Brent Scowcroft After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Allen Klein And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Sallust By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Okri Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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