Quotes About Destruction

Ruskin never escaped his prudish ways or gave any indication of desiring to. After the death of J. M. W. Turner, in 1851, Ruskin was given the job of going through the works left to the nation by the great artist and found several watercolors of a cheerfully erotic nature. Horrified, Ruskin decided that they could only have been drawn "under a certain condition of insanity," and for the good of the nation destroyed almost all of them, robbing posterity of several priceless works.

It was one of the things you put up with: that every Saturday young males trashed your trains, broke the windows of your pubs, destroyed your cars, wreaked havoc on your town centres. I didn't buy it, but it seemed to be so.

What made them particularly unusual was the way Steve presented them. He was rational and fluent and had given much thought to the problems he was discussing, although he had not thought about the implications of the thing – that this was socially deviant conduct of the highest order, involving injuries and maiming and the destruction of property., I don't think he understood the implications; I don't think he would have acknowledged them as valid.

It's heartbreaking to see how some people go through their entire lives held captive by debilitating fears. When you peel back all the layers of self-protection that cover up these destructive fears, you'll often find one or two significant events at the core. These events may not even seem all that terrifying to the casual observer, but they were just scary enough to start tripping the dominoes, causing the person to erect walls of avoidance.

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, Snow said. It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.

The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction. But for that we should be bored, and boredom would drive us to seek some more solid means of escape, but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death.

Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

God alone is man's true good, and since man abandoned him it is a strange fact that nothing in nature has been found to take his place...Since losing his true good, man is capable of seeing it in anything, even his own destruction, although it is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.

Oh no, there goes Tokyo, Go Go Godzilla!

When I say my name I hear a burned-down church.

O Solon, you Greeks are children. There have been and will be many destructors of mankind, of which the greatest are by fire and water." She

think Nikita Khrushchev, surprisingly enough, summed up nuclear war quite well. He said the survivors would envy the dead.

You crushed sofa! You crumpled bedsheet! Khrapugina screamed

Me acerco a ella, aparto a un lado el arco roto y cojo sus manos entre las mías. Pero cuando me inclino para besarla en la frente, me doy cuenta de que lo había entendido mal. No es que se identifique con lo perdido. Nora Hartson se identifica con lo destruido. Por eso puede entrar en una sala llena de gente y descubrir a la única persona que está sola. Por eso me encontró a mí. Reconoció la herida, se reconoció a sí misma.

The weapon's rounds tore through it like an angry child stabbing a gingerbread house with a screwdriver.

Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.

As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man's hand would have any effect on him.

Cambodia is the most heavily mined country on earth, with 4 to 8 million land mines, according to one estimate.

But no guard would accompany us; because of public anger over the destruction of the mosque at Ayodhya, a national strike day had been declared, and no one was working.

I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion

What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?

You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers.