Quotes About Devastation

I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic.

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth

But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

There is no proportion. Pearl Harbor took care of that.

I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

Radioactive waste in Coldwater Creek has caused a level of devastation that would be unfathomable if it weren't our reality. Our communities have seen hundreds of our neighbors sickened with rare cancers. Animals, birds, and insects have dropped dead in our neighborhoods.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism....

When I hear of the destruction of a species ... I just feel as if all the the works of some great writer had perished.

It's ironic that some plants thrive in soil that has been displaced. Due to the devastation around us, these flowers bloom profusely, yet I find their tenacity and beauty uplifting.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

In 1755 one of the worst natural disasters of the eighteenth century occurred: the Lisbon earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. This Portuguese city was devastated not just by the earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed, and then by fires that raged for days.

No one could truly understand the measure of joy a mother received from giving birth to a child. No one could truly understand the devastation a mother experienced upon losing one.

The message of The Winner Takes It All is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.

rough guess is that it killed ninety-nine percent of people.

They will have to destroy this city once we deliver the black box. The current bones will not accommodate the marrow of the device. They will have to raze the city and cart off the rubble to less popular boroughs and start anew.

Tennessee was cursed. Initially, she assigned the devastation of Tennessee, the blaze and the disease, to justice. The whites got what they deserved for enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by flame or fever, let the destruction started here roll acre by acre until the dead have been avenged. But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?