Decimating Quotes

#1. At his words not my body, but my soul bucked, decimating barriers that until then had been untouched.

Jen Crane

#2. After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

A. J. Jacobs

#3. The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Arthur Erickson

#4. I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

Martin McGuinness

#5. Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

#6. The criminalization and demonization of black men has turned the black community against itself, unraveling community and family relationships, decimating networks of mutual support, and intensifying the shame and self-hate experienced by the current pariah caste.

Michelle Alexander

#7. I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.

Anodea Judith

#9. Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.

Chrys Fey

#10. Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

Maajid Nawaz

#11. Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.

Georgette Heyer

#12. The two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen
only light and peace.

Hermann Hesse

#13. I do know you're nothing like him. But you're still ... still a lot. A lot to handle. I don't mean your junk, obviously, as we've not gotten to the fondling-bits stage yet. And I can't believe I just talked about your junk.

Nicole Peeler

#14. Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

Tom Watson

#15. Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Without love life will be barren field.

Debasish Mridha

#17. The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That's what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

Diane Neal

#18. We don't get to choose our parents," Sunny said. "If we did, some of us might choose never to be born at all.

Jamie Ford

#19. Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

Tariq Ramadan

#20. If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary.

Jerry Vlasak

#21. The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Kenneth L. Pike