Quotes About Destruction

we lose more and more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily; the beaten generation indeed, self-inflicted wounds, and our elected officials keep watch over us intent on keeping us content and complacent, so we willingly sell ourselves out for more tax breaks and we continue to consume and destroy ourselves while watching each other with suspicion.

Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when, to be frank, wholesale destruction didn't sound so bad, considering. You remember, we were all disappointed. That the world never ended meant we had to get out of bed after all...

As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.

In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

The Algo Wars were leaving a path of destruction in their wake. "HFT algos reduce the value of resting orders and increase the value of how fast orders can be placed and cancelled," wrote Nanex researcher Eric Hunsader. "This results in the illusion of liquidity. We can't understand why this is allowed to continue, because at the core, it is pure manipulation.

I was created to be destroyed.

What I thought was a sea of dust is an ocean of death.

I am the wind...I am death.

When evil comes, you can't always talk to it—sometimes it must be destroyed.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

Our foe is defeated and waiting to be utterly destroyed. His present flurry of fury is actually a sign he knows his time is short.

The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.

But it is for us to distinguish, to see the difference between wrong done to us and equal wrong done by us; to know that our transient life, no matter how scarred, how broken, how miserable it may be, is also God's miracle and gift; that we may try to improve it, but we may not destroy it.

bolted down his blood and gorged on him in lumps, leaving the body utterly lifeless, eaten up...

No trembling harp, no tuned timber, no tumbling hawk swerving through the hall, no swift horse pawing the courtyard. Pillage and slaughter have emptied the earth of entire peoples. And so he mourned as he moved about the world, deserted and alone, lamenting his unhappiness day and night, until death's flood brimmed up in his heart.

The hall towered, its gables wide and high and awaiting a barbarous burning. [ll. 81-83]

He might as well Be dead, for when you lose your happiness, I always say, you lose your life. You can dwell in state, have all the trappings of success and style, But if you can't enjoy them in your heart, What does it mean? If your joy in life's destroyed, You're left with a mirage. Shadows and ash.

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time.

That there are evil people destroying America and it's a conspiracy and time is running out and we should do something about it - that's what millions of people hear Trump saying.