Destroyed Quotes

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.

England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

The Smurf village was destroyed weeks ago and Bush has still not made an appearance. George Bush doesn't care about tiny blue people.

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.