Destructible Quotes

#1. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Franz Kafka

#3. I have no praise anthems, nor old Negro spirituals. The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible - that is precisely why they are so precious.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

Lucretius

#5. To be conscious is inevitably to be a hypocrite. We can stomach our own kind, or just enough of them who either prove useful to us or are not handily destructible, only by the terms of the following contract: we will eat some of the other fellow's excrement if he will eat some of ours.

Thomas Ligotti

#6. The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible- that is precisely why they are so precious. And the soul did not escape. The spirit did not steal away on gospel wings.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world.
-Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Olivia Newton-John

#9. Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#11. It's just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can't, suffer." Kiva was silent for a moment. Then, "Fuck you for having a conscience, Tomi.

John Scalzi

#12. As soon as you say 'Bunnymen,' I see a trench coat.

Brandon Flowers

#13. War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

John Boyne

#14. It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.

Sophie Kinsella

#15. The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#16. Shall we call coincidence what God calls providence?

Beth Moore