(477 quotes found)
“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”
Chanakya
“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.”
“What nourishes me also destroys me.”
Angelina Jolie
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise”
William Blake
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
“How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face”
William Shakespeare
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
Abraham Lincoln
“But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.”
Charles Lindbergh