Destroys Quotes
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The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
Mahatma Gandhi
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The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
Caryll Houselander -
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
Gautama Buddha -
One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.
Eric Reeves -
Art destroys silence.
Alicia Ostriker -
I need to go towards the illogical. This world we live in destroys us. It is always governed by the same laws. You have to create images that don’t belong to it. That are totally different from those it presents us.
Bram van Velde -
She is never more herself than when she destroys herself.
Christina Stead
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
Norm MacDonald -
They will love me for that which destroys me.
Sarah Kane -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Renata Adler -
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
Ephrem the Syrian
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Seth Godin -
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.
Brennan Manning -
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.
Emile Gaboriau -
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Seneca the Younger -
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.
Eugene Delacroix
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
Norm MacDonald -
As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.
George Plimpton -
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Sydney Smith -
Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
Seth Godin