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Quotes About Destroyed

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
~ Peter Shaffer
I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
~ Hans Frank
These depictions of a broken America were also highly selective. When Ted Cruz listed the various ways Americans "have had their lives destroyed" — by terrorists, or police officers cut down in the line of duty, he pointedly excluded stories of innocent black people shot by the police.
~ Jon Ronson
I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.
~ Markus Persson
Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
~ Adam McKay
Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
~ Barbara Demick
Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.
~ Steve Albini
No one will ever comprehend the arrested civilizations unless he sees the strict dilemma of early society. Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused tribes, hardly hanging together, or they had to obtain a fixed law by processes of incredible difficulty. Those who surmounted that difficulty soon destroyed all those that lay in their way who did not.
~ Walter Bagehot
If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.
~ Dave Ramsey
And it's only because the one who once ruled the world has in principle been driven out (Jn 12:31), disarmed (Col 2:15) and destroyed (1 Jn 3:8) that disciples can be assured that no cosmic power can separate us from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39).
~ James K. Beilby
a few hours could change everything – or rather, how strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.
~ Donna Tartt
Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.
~ Douglas Adams
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
~ Alan Paton
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
~ Thomas Frank
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
~ Hermann Hesse
It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. 'But
~ Raymond E. Feist
It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another.
~ Raymond E. Feist
El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
~ Richard Adams
This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always fascinates me.
~ Julian Fellowes
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
~ Lorna Luft
A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
~ Ayn Rand
It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.
~ David Kuo
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
~ Norman Angell
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
~ Jane Austen