Quotes About Destroyed

If, as Gibbon says, nothing but time - though a long time- is required for a world to perish; so nothing but time -though still more time- is required for a false idea to be destroyed in Germany.

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

I still don't see why we were fighting when you could have just kicked their asses without us. (Fury) Because I believe in giving everyone a fighting chance…until they piss me off. Bringing in reinforcements was Stryker's mistake. (Acheron) And be glad it wasn't yours. I know I'm thrilled it wasn't mine. Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight. (Fury)

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

We have reason to believe," he said, "that the object indicated by that icon is a sublight colony ship from Earth which has been lost and presumed destroyed since the time of the Kleptocracy.

when selflessness is seen in objects, the seeds of cyclic existence are destroyed.aryadeva

At the loss of praise and fame, my own mind appears to me just like a child who wails in distress when its sand castle is destroyed.

suppose that I have to go somewhere, since my pleasant retreat has been destroyed. Perhaps, ipso facto, pursuant to the circumstances, I may accompany this potential heir-designate until further information is forthcoming one way or another." "Pleasant retreat!" said Arthur. "That was a prison—you…you were supposed to break out of it and do your duty. Let the Will be done, my foot!

Conservatives tend not to want to fund early childhood education. First, they see it as a government program to be destroyed. Second, they are concerned about what would be taught—perhaps not the subject matter of what would be taught in a strict father household. They want to be sure that children are taught a conservative way of looking at the world. Children

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

I am the wild machinist, past destroyed, reconstructing the present.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything.

History teaches over and over again that a conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

And then how grievous a thing it is to have the pleasure of your novel destroyed by the ill-considered triumph of a previous reader.

I will give him the precedence; and then, from these things which he adduces, I will shoot him dead with new words and thoughts. And at last, if he mutter, he shall be destroyed, being stung in his whole face and his two eyes by my maxims, as if by bees. Aristophanes, Clouds 945

Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

the evil is the house itself, I think. It has enchained and destroyed its people and their lives, it is a place of contained ill will.

In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead.

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth I pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.