Destroys Quotes

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

What feeds me destroys me.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

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.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Time destroys everything.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.