Quotes About Destruction

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable.

I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.

The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of Europe had not really begun. War had not really touched the European continent at that point.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

Whatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil.

There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.

War is about dead people.

Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.