(440 quotes found)
“What nourishes me also destroys me.”
Angelina Jolie
“How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face”
William Shakespeare
“The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.”
Dale E. Turner
“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
Chanakya
“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
“But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.”
Charles Lindbergh
“It's the first drop that destroys you - there's no harm at all in the last”
Irish Sayings
“Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.”
Niccolo Machiavelli