Quotes About Being Destroyed From Within

#1. The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. But it's not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you. You can't forget anything that hurt so badly, went so deep, and changed the world forever. It's not possible to forget anybody you've destroyed.

James Baldwin

#3. Love is the highest form of energy. It cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transmuted.

Tapan Ghosh

#4. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?

Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.

Ellen Ullman

#5. From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now she could feel the heat of his expert lips against hers, and the remembrance of his taste made her mouth water.

Sylvia Day

#6. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Mother Teresa

#7. [H]aving the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.

Glenn Greenwald

#8. The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and

Will Durant

#9. The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you'll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn't yours doesn't matter.

Tiffany FitzHenry

#10. When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all.

Hilaire Belloc

#11. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

Richard Adams

#12. Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#13. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Zhang Yimou

#14. Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

Steve Albini

#15. The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.

Andrea Dworkin

#16. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

Orson Scott Card

#17. But in life, every moment can be said to be critical; all is revealed and concealed, created, maintained, and destroyed in the great dance of time.

Kate Elliott

#18. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#19. There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#20. If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Lewis Thomas

#21. It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!

Jhonen Vasquez

#23. If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

Milton Friedman

#24. I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

Rupert Grint

#25. From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

Herman Kahn

#26. We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

Susan Powter

#27. The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

Gabriel Lippmann

#28. I believe in violence, I believe violence can be solved by greater violence. I also know greater violence breeds more violence. I'm certain now, that violence is like energy; it can't be destroyed, it will always be passed on, as it will be done to you

Cheyi Okoaye

#29. Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#30. I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

Sharon Salzberg

#31. According to Bastardi, human-induced climate change contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.

Joe Bastardi

#32. Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

Ann Coulter

#33. People who use dirty methods to hurt others ... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention ... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto

Tite Kubo

#34. You were destroyed by what you befriended.

Charles Bukowski

#35. It is strange," Mr. Willoughby said, and the air of reflection in his voice was echoed exactly by Jamie's, "but it was my joy of women that Second Wife saw and loved in my words. Yet by desiring to possess me - and my poems - she would have forever destroyed what she admired." Mr.

Diana Gabaldon

#36. We have art,' Nietzsche said, 'so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.

Michael Ondaatje

#37. They have destroyed your weapons," he had told the generals, in effect. "But these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.

Winston S. Churchill

#38. I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

Gail Devers

#39. Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.

Uzoma Nnadi

#40. To love is to be destroyed, and to be loved is to be destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

#41. The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Robert Peel

#42. Loneliness can't be seen. It's a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can't help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day,yet nothing to do.

Debolina Bhawal

#43. Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Ernest Dimnet

#44. The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

John Shimkus

#45. Was Lucifer a demon determined to ruin Eve and spawn a species of monsters? Or was he a fallen angel so in love with a human woman he destroyed paradise for a kiss? We will never know. And perhaps we shouldn't ask why Lucifer tempted Eve at all, but another question: Why did she give in?

Sylvia Frost

#46. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

Martin Luther

#47. I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

Pierre Boulez

#48. There is a princess in all our heads: she must be destroyed.

Laurie Penny

#49. The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Betty Friedan

#50. So he was hurt? Too fucking bad. I was destroyed.

Laurelin Paige

#51. He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.

Pope Francis

#52. You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

Richard De Bury

#53. I hit the red END button on the phone. The word itself mocks me. Have I really destroyed any chance to be with Olivia? Do I really care if I have?
The answers are: I don't know and yes. In that order.

M. Leighton

#54. There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.

Paul P. Enns

#55. He smashed all my reservations that he couldn't give me what I desired and proved love could change anyone - no matter how destroyed.

Pepper Winters

#56. Surdas destroyed his eyes believing that once his sight was gone, desire and passion would never arise in him again. But desire doesn't arise in the eyes, it arises out of the mind. No passion will ever be finished in this way-even if one destroys one's own eyes-

Osho

#57. Love is misunderstood by many.
Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you.
Love is to be Permanent in the law of impermanence.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

#58. People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

Christian Bale

#59. There's terrible evil in the world."
It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Richard Adams

#60. Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Swami Vivekananda

#61. If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Marquis De Lafayette

#62. When demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

Samuel Alexander

#63. [2 Pet. 3:10] But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.10

Anonymous

#64. Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.

Kirk Hammett

#65. The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#66. [In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.

Pitirim Sorokin

#67. There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Pete Seeger

#68. the positive Warrior energy destroys only what needs to be destroyed in order for something new and fresh, more alive and more virtuous to appear.

Robert L. Moore

#69. But somehow, every time there's a natural disaster, news crews manage to track down one of these outdoorsy yahoos to interview about how the "twister came a-screamin' down the holler" and destroyed the snake farm his family had been running for generations.

Molly Harper

#70. Mishmar. Your father's hellish prison he cobbled together from the remains of office buildings from Omaha, which he destroyed. The Mishmar that's stuffed to the brink with mutated vampires. That Mishmar." "Yes." "You

Ilona Andrews

#71. 6. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: 8. But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.

Anonymous

#72. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

Evelyn Waugh

#73. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.

Martha N. Beck

#74. Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell's shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does.

Harper Lee

#75. You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'.

C.S. Lewis

#76. This is how it's meant to be. It shows that everything that exists must one day change - but what is destroyed can be created again with patience and dedication.

Morgan Rhodes

#77. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.

C.J. Carlyon

#78. Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

Frederick Lenz

#79. Love is in constant motion, it is the energy which was created when you were born and it will never be destroyed.

Santosh Kalwar

#80. As the parts that made the Bugatti were pulled apart and twisted, the information that was embodied in the Bugatti was largely destroyed. This is another way of saying that the $2.5 million worth of value was stored not in the car's atoms but in the way those atoms were arranged.

Cesar Hidalgo

#81. (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#82. The military spirit makes you obedient, it makes you physically very disciplined; but inwardly your mind is gradually destroyed because you are imitating, following, copying. You become a mere tool of the older people, of the politician, an instrument of propaganda.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#83. Revenge never ends until everything and everyone around it is destroyed. A vengeful heart never rests.

Jason Lloyd

#84. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Oscar Wilde

#85. Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966 - A fire that destroyed the city's oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild slave narrative that highlights a little-known era of American history. The First United

James McBride

#86. The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything He tells you. Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed.

Moses

#87. Would you have her birched in the public square? Baited by dogs perhaps? Madam, we have destroyed her good name, and she will find the world a much colder and darker place as a result. Even now her father is probably changing her name to Buzzletrice.

Frances Hardinge

#88. Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

John Steinbeck

#89. Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

John Calvin

#90. We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.

George W. Bush

#91. Sincerity, authenticity, integrity, mutual understanding - these and other sources of moral wealth are destroyed the moment we deliberately misrepresent our beliefs, whether or not our lies are ever discovered.

Sam Harris

#92. Love can end. It isn't permanent by nature, whatever the weavers of fairy tales want to suggest. Forever takes hard work, and is destroyed by lies.

Christine Amsden

#93. As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

Max Muller

#94. These descendants divined myths in what was really history, for true memories were forgotten in chaos as vast arrays of daivi astras used in the Great War ravaged the land. That war destroyed almost everything. It took centuries for India to regain its old cultural vigour and intellectual depth.

Amish Tripathi

#95. What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'-Asterin/Manon

Sarah J. Maas

#96. Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#97. I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.

Greg Walden

#98. All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Simon Hoggart

#99. But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.

Aristotle.

#100. We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;

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