Quotes and Sayings About Destroying
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
-- Alan Paton -
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 -
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 -
Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?
-- Charles Bukowski -
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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 -
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
-- Clifford GeertzSource : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.67, Princeton University Press
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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 -
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Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
-- Ella T. Grasso -
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 -
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Destroying America will be the culmination of my life's work.
-- George Soros -
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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 -
The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.
-- Harry Golden -
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.
-- Janis Joplin -
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I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
-- John ConnollySource : John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
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Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
-- John M. McHugh -
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
-- John Mason Brown -
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley -
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. -
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 -
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We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
-- Moses Sofer -
I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.
-- Natsuo Kirino -
We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves
-- Otto FrankSource : "Fictional character: Otto Frank". "The Diary of Anne Frank". Biography, www.imdb.com. 1959.
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Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
-- Paul BegalaSource : "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 17, 2016.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
-- R. D. Laing