Destroy Quotes

I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my hea

~ Tahereh Mafi

Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.

~ Emily Thorne

Most of the time, our fight is all about saving us from ourselves.

~ Akshay Vasu

To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Harmony would only come with destruction.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I can't destroy things so beautiful.Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

~ Neal Shusterman

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

~ Anthony Liccione

But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a story one makes up in one’s mind about another person, and one knows all the time it isn’t true. Of course one knows; why, one’s always taking care not to destroy the illusion.

~ Virginia Woolf

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

~ E.b. White

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

~ Sun Tzu

It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?

~ Donna Tartt

O Indra, destroy all those lustful peoplebehaving like birds....angry onesbehaving like wolves....greedy onesbehaving like vultures....enticed ones behaving like owls..... arrogant ones behaivng like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.

~ Veda

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.

~ Wilbur Smith

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

~ Debasish Mridha

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

~ Alexandre Dumas

A warrior always, you lift a hand to create or destroy as you will, and heed no one's call but your own. And all the while, my one breathless thought, repeating as though I know nothing else...Take me with you.

~ Donya Petrock

It's like in someways I've been trying to create without first destroying. Is such a concept possible? For too long I have feared myself, fear what I can create. In essence, I have feared creating myself.

~ Jeremy Caldwell

Remember that it is quicker to destroy than build, so be careful of what you do even with your own tongue.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

What is wrong with you?” Radu sounded on the verge of tears. “Why do you have to destroy everything good we have here?”“Because,” Lada said, voice flat with the sudden wave of exhaustion pulling her heavily to the ground. “We have nothing. Can you not see that?”“We have Mehmed!”Lada looked up. The stars were static, still and cold in the night, all the fire gone from the sky. “It is not enough,” she said.

~ Kiersten White

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

~ Cassandra Clare

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

~ Thomas S. Monson

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

~ Max Beerbohm

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

~ Walt Whitman

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

~ John Tyler

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

~ John Darnielle

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

~ Gertrude Stein

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

~ John Marshall

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

~ Chanakya

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

~ A. Philip Randolph

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

~ Martha Gellhorn

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

~ William Hazlitt

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

~ John Catsimatidis