Destroyed Quotes

• We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Destroyed
  • Love Of Change

• The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Culture
  • Danger
  • Destroyed

• If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.

  

  David Dixon Porter
  • Hope
  • Being
  • Marine

• I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

  

  Homer
  • King
  • Destroyed
  • Soil

• I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Community
  • Government
  • Military

• As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Family
  • Destroyed

• Painting is being alive. Through my painting, I beat back this world that stops us living and where we are in constant danger of being destroyed.. .No, you have to know when to keep silent.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Danger
  • Silent

• I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Destroyed
  • Violent
  • I Hate

• Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Drugs
  • Destroyed
  • Policies

• If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • America
  • Free
  • Security

• I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Students
  • Images
  • Reminder

• But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remember
  • Glad
  • Achieved

• Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Evil
  • Destroyed

• They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Destroyed

• Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Children
  • Money
  • Price

• The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

  

  George Smathers
  • Determine
  • Outcome
  • Turned

• Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Pride

• I've met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Donald Trump
  • Destroyed

• She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Profound
  • Destroyed
  • Mets

• Even though we have to cut our budget in oother places, we will spend what it takes to repair the damage, ... Acapulco is not destroyed. It will recover.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Damage
  • Budget
  • Recover

• Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

  

  Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Values
  • Belief
  • Conservatism

• Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

  

  David Duke
  • Congress
  • Members
  • Destroyed

• You are in constant danger of being destroyed.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Danger
  • Destroyed

• Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Stuff
  • Destroyed
  • Legends

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