Quotes About Destruction

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small . . . and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

The real danger, the ultimate horror, happens when the creating and protecting, the sheltering, comes first—and then the destruction. Because if this is the sequence, everything built up ends in death.

In a way, he realized, I'm part of the form-destroying process of entropy.

C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century.

If the system can survive only by imprisoning innocent people, then it deserves to be destroyed

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death.

Somewhere out there is the origin of all the Dust, all the death, the sin, the misery, the destructiveness in the world. Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it... That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it.

Así procede la iglesia; todas hacen lo mismo: controlar, destruir y erradicar cualquier sensación placentera.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. A

Three generations. All of them growing. The working. The saving. The success. Three generations in raptures over America. Three generations of becoming one with a people. And now with the fourth it had all come to nothing. The total vandalization of their world.

The Israelis will have saved their state by destroying their people.

Our nation's angriest culture warriors need to know the cost of their conflict. As they seek to crush their political and cultural enemies, they may destroy the nation they seek to rule.

Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations.

Drawing his sword, he gazed down at the gleaming blade. 'I pledge you to the destruction of Sparta,' he whispered. Raising the weapon high he pointed it to the south-east and, though the city was far beyond his range of vision, he pictured the sword poised above it with the sun's harsh light turning it to fire.

La creazione richiede tempo e amore, la distruzione solo qualche secondo di follia.

An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her what she meant by 'the American way,' she said, 'Basically the destruction of everything--the world, your happiness, your soul, everything. The complete package. Evil and war. That's who we are, Mr. Countryman.'

The new battalion commander had used his eyes but not his head: he'd seen overfamiliarity, but had not taken tome to think, to realize that Barney K.'s easygoing attitude with his guys came from the platoon's and its leader's mutual understanding, respect, and trust. With one order, the CO had destroyed it all, and my friend was heartbroken.

The process of neoliberalization has, however, entailed much 'creative destruction'

The Book of Proverbs contains a warning that speaks to us in our uncertain state: "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."14 Those who believe they are changing the world, or saving the planet, or transforming the human race, are intoxicated with self-aggrandizing pride. As secular "redeemers," a haughty spirit is their second nature. Consequently, they are deaf to this biblical wisdom.