Destroying Quotes

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.