Giving Someone The Power To Destroy You Quotes

#1. Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.

Mpho Koaho

#2. A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Caitlin Thomas

#3. I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Margaret Mead

#4. Wait, wait. I don't get it.'
'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

John Green

#5. Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Ben Okri

#6. I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

C.S. Lewis

#7. The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

Michael Ignatieff

#8. That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.

Kevin Wilson

#9. I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

Debbi Fields

#10. If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.

Khaled Saad

#11. Love! Hate! Is there no third?

Franz Grillparzer

#12. I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz ... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

#13. You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

Otto Von Bismarck

#14. Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.

Mike Barnicle

#15. So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

Thomas Sowell

#16. Diesel had gotten his nickname because he was built like a Mack truck. .... He stood six feet, six inches tall and his muscles had muscles.

Amanda Carlson

#17. Love is giving someone the power to completely destroy you, and hoping that they won't

Suzanne Wright

#18. And if you share that humiliation, there's the chance the person will use it against you at the first opportunity. Or they'll cut you out of their life entirely. So how do you ever trust someone? Without giving them the power to destroy you?

Lorelei James

#19. You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Kris Vallotton

#20. To know when to be generous and when firm - that is wisdom.

Edith Wharton

#21. The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. Dave gazed at Melanie like Professor Brian Cox eyeing up a particularly thought-provoking mountain range.

Dave Turner

#23. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Julia Hill