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Quotes About Destroy

I wondered about the masterminds who were directing all the mayhem. Did they really hope to survive? Or was I missing the point? Did they intend, instead, to incinerate themselves and all of us with them? Like mummified pharaohs and their entombed slaves. Why do that? Maybe just to prove that they owned the world. After all, you don't own something unless you can destroy it.
~ Stepan Chapman
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
~ Ayn Rand
Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
~ Michael Crichton
Malcolm coughed, and stared into the distance. "Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
~ Michael Crichton
The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
~ Michael Crichton
So what are you saying? We shouldn't care about the environment?" "No, of course not." "Then what?" Malcolm coughed, and stared into the distance. "Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
~ Michael Crichton
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
~ Michael Crichton
But I tell you this, Sepiriz—given the opportunity I shall make that god rue his homecoming, for he has done the one thing that can move me to real anger. And the anger of Elric of Melniboné and his sword Stormbringer can destroy the world!" Sepiriz
~ Michael Moorcock
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.
~ Michael Polanyi
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
~ Nancy Pelosi
to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale
~ Cassandra Clare
When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.
~ Jeff Mangum
Treat this as a warning, I said. Be on your guard. 16 will not wear his ill intentions in his face. It is very likely he will be pleasing to the eyes. His manners will be friendly and insinuating. That is how he intends to destroy you.
~ Susanna Clarke
Pensar era quizá destruir la tela todavía suspendida en algo como el reverso de la sensación, su latencia acaso repetible.
~ Julio Cortazar
Now, now-don't strain that magnificent brain of yours trying to work out my motives-we have a lunatic clank to destroy!
~ Kaja Foglio
The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
~ Alex Berenson
Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy... and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.
~ John O. Brennan
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore like him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
~ Francis Bacon
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
~ Francis Bacon
I understand that sometimes the truth of God's Word can become a divider, an irritation, a stone of stumbling. But that's only because it remains unchanged, uncompromising, and steadfast. And what better reason could there be to build our lives on such an immovable foundation? To violate the Word of God is only to destroy ourselves, our joy, our peace, our happiness.
~ Frank Peretti
And for our work—though showers And autumn frosts destroy— Our greatest pay's not measured In fruit and flower we've treasured, But in the golden hours That brought us health and joy!
~ Frederick Frye Rockwell
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.
~ Brandon Sanderson