Quotes About Destroyer

Silence. Silence! And in silence ponder the similitudes between cannons and mouths. The simpleton beholds a cannon and phant'sies it an infallible destroyer of foes. But the veteran artilleryman knows that sometimes, when a cannon speaks, it bursts. Especially when it has been loaded in haste. When this occurs, Daniel, the foe is untouched.

One thing Scott's tactical instructions didn't adequately clarify was how his destroyer captains would bring their torpedoes to bear. Torpedoes were the killing weapons of naval war, and much easier to aim than guns were.

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

ABAD'DON, noun [Hebrew Chaldee Syriac Samaritan to be lost, or destroyed, to perish.] 1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit. Revelation 9. 2. The bottomless pit. Milton.

It stood to reason that if the evil designer – the destroyer of minds, the friend of fever – had concealed the key of the pattern with such monstrous care, that key must be as precious as life itself and, when found, would regain for Timofey Pnin his everyday health, his everyday world

Okay. Exorcism time. Repeat after me: Uncle Sigmund, I renounce you as a charlatan, a bully, and a fabricator of data. A cor-rupter of language, a destroyer of lives

Abruptly the destroyer lurched and began to nose about toward Kashyyyk's crescent of bright side. The brain wants to complete the task it was in the middle of when the ship was shut down, Filli said. Starstone turned to him. What was the task? It thinks that the Separatists are losing Kachirho. It's converting itself into a giant bomb!

Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.

The devil?" Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. "Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was." Jason smiled. "But he meant well.

Trinity's witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: It worked.

Do you know much about Hindu beliefs, Mr. Birdsey?" she asked. "Shiva is the third god of the Supreme Spirit. The Hindu trinity. Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is the Preserver, and Shiva is the Destroyer.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer

I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed. That is why they are unfit for romantic love. There are exceptions and I hope they are happy.

Your enemy is not a Baptist, Pentecostal, or charismatic—your enemy is a destroyer of souls called Satan and his spirit rebels (Eph. 6:12). You can't fight right unless you're in the light—and the light is the Word of God.

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, -- the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

The best access is to be tendered to shore from a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and then it was a destroyer.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.