Top 83 Obliterate Quotes
#1. Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Helen Dunmore
#3. Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
#5. 'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.
Richard Corliss
#6. Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Salman Rushdie
#7. We are poison to one another, a dangerous brew of lust and lies that threatens to obliterate us and anyone in our path.
--Novak
Suzanne Steele
#8. Sex is primal. And it's ugly as fuckin' hell. I know that better than anyone. But with you ... with you it's all beauty. You managed to obliterate the ugly, Kat.
Anonymous
#9. Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
Hassan Al-Banna
#10. For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
Chang-rae Lee
#11. For a fraction of a moment she glimpsed the truth. She saw a world so terrified of Woman's mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power - the natural shape of her body.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#12. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.
Khaled Hosseini
#13. All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.
Walter Pater
#14. Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
Basil Bunting
#15. I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.
Cornell Woolrich
#16. I thought about the warm skin and soft hair and hands of someone living, someone who was far cleverer and funnier than I would ever be and who still couldn't see a better future than to obliterate himself.
Jojo Moyes
#17. I know whom we must fight ... it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.
Philip Pullman
#18. That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off ... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
Iain Banks
#19. Taking advice is fine; by all means, be open-minded, but not to the point of allowing others to obliterate your uniqueness.
Bryant McGill
#20. If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
Yayoi Kusama
#21. We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.
Kenzaburo Oe
#23. If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
C.S. Lewis
#24. You're going to obliterate me, you know.
- Oscar Ralph to Jude Sweetwine
Jandy Nelson
#25. So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
Franz Kafka
#26. Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.
Swami Vivekananda
#27. One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.
Ayn Rand
#28. Your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind, and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#29. As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.
Max Heindel
#30. Moments one knows only death will obliterate.
John Fowles
#31. Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
Anais Nin
#32. When you get an e-mail and reply to the sender, you simply obliterate everything they sent you and then, in small square brackets, write: [deletia] It stands for everything that's been lost.
Douglas Coupland
#33. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.
Joan Didion
#34. Thus the negro transmits the eternal mark of his ignominy to all his descendants; and although the law may abolish slavery, God alone can obliterate the traces of its existence.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#35. Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#36. "MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD ... OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH ... "
"Ooh, that's a nice song," said the Hogfly, ever polite.
Cressida Cowell
#37. Own me," I gasped. "Obliterate me. Make me feel like there's absolute nothing left but our bodies as they burn." He didn't answer me. He didn't have to. His fingers shoved inside me and started to dance in the way only Cole's ever could.
Ace Gray
#38. There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
Thomas Hardy
#39. Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen
#40. Hatred does not obliterate love. Indeed, the two are in constant fellowship.
Andrew Solomon
#41. Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.
Franz Kafka
#42. When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.
Albert Einstein
#43. Toad, who happens to have the ball at that moment, doesn't seem to think it's a very good idea. But then Omar utters those golden words that have the magical power to obliterate every child's self-restraint anywhere in the world: "You don't have the guts to do it!
Fredrik Backman
#44. Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose - and know your purpose!
Frank Herbert
#45. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.
Ralph Barton Perry
#46. Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
Max Brooks
#47. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.
Joan Didion
#48. The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
Epes Sargent
#49. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. Her temperament has never been competitive; she immediately wants to disappear, to obliterate herself, to make way for them.
Philippe Grimbert
#51. You obliterate my central sun and i hate and fear you for it . . . every moment with you is fraught with my anxiety of failure to be who you want me to be, to say what you want me to say . . .
You don't remember you have a daughter. You never see my pain. You see yourself.
Carol Lee
#52. Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
#53. I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
Ana Gasteyer
#54. There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel De Cervantes
#55. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence
Donal Ryan
#56. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
#57. We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#58. Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
Yayoi Kusama
#59. Cool is a weapon created by creeps to obliterate the morals that good parents instill in their children.
Greg Gutfeld
#60. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.
Anonymous
#61. Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.
Alma Katsu
#62. What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self - whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it - believe me, it is still alive and kicking.
K.P. Yohannan
#63. Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.
Frank Knight
#64. He's like a trip wire, rigged to detonate a category five hurricane of emotions inside of me. But I'm a masochist of the highest order, so I let him obliterate me. Again and again.
A. Zavarelli
#65. You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.
Rona Jaffe
#67. Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais Nin
#68. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.
Michael Martin Hammer
#69. Now, when I read, I read not,
For interrupting tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.
Emily Dickinson
#70. Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
Richard Owen
#71. The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
Jacques Delors
#72. Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort
to obliterate complacency
and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.
James C. Collins
#73. Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because it was never quite what I wanted. I think the moment you think you've arrived is the moment that you should stop.
Simon McBurney
#74. I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.
Deborah Turbeville
#76. All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
Basho Matsuo
#77. But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
Peter Scott
#78. Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be.
Lana Wachowski
#79. Great joy doesn't obliterate grief. Both can be encompassed at the same time.
Helen Brown
#80. And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.
Jaroslav Hasek
#81. The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
Orson Scott Card
#82. The materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
Alan Watts
#83. In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.
J.D. Stroube
