Quotes About Destruction

Dealing dreams and destruction to a pattern plagued world.

He drives recklessly or speeds up when he's angry. -He punches walls or kicks doors. -He throws things around, even if they don't hit you.

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

Time never works. It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts, and destroys. But it never works. It only gives us an opportunity to work.

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

That was the destructive power of sin and lies—they harmed the innocent along with the guilty.

In England, as on the Continent, two stages of invasion are distinguished; the first, from about 787 to 855, a purely destructive one of plunder and rapine; the second, of occupation.

Nor can I throw a book away. I have given many away and ripped a few in half, but as with warring nations, destruction shows regard: the enemy is a power to reckon with. Throwing a book out shows contempt for an effort of the spirit. Not that I haven't tried.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside. Pornography

One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.

Jinnah said, as early as in the first decade of the twentieth century, that separate electorates would lead to the destruction of Indian unity; and so they did.

Collapsed roofs "hung at an angle and looked as if they were still sliding down, perpetually falling, like a waterfall." Leningrad now literally resembled one of the fractured Cubist landscapes of the 1920s avant-garde — or, as Ginzburg remarked, one of Vsevolod Meyerhold's stage sets.

Shostakovich hated the way propaganda amplified his life and sought to make it heroic. It galled him. He was naturally shy. Fame was deadly in Stalin's Russia. It marked you out for destruction.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it's not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.

my rifle had brought death and destruction

But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.

The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.

No one would remember his glory, or his honesty, or his beauty; all his gold would be turned to ashes and ruin.

She was a goddess of torment and understood the eloquence of violence.

Killing a whole family was something to boast of, a glorious deed that proved you powerful enough to wipe a name from the earth.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life

gale of last November had brought down some

The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, 'Western civilisation' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.