Destroy Quotes
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Jesus taught that the age he lived in was controlled by forces of evil but that God would soon intervene to destroy everything and everyone opposed to him. God would then bring in a good, utopian kingdom on earth, where there would be no more pain and suffering. Jesus himself would be the ruler of this kingdom, with his twelve disciples serving under him. And all this was to happen very soon—within his own generation. This
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.
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But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
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But I think that every time you hurt somebody you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.
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People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.
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But once you describe something, you destroy it.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.
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I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.
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You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.
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When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.
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If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
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Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.
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Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it.
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Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end
