Quotes About Construction And Destruction

#1. Our life moves in a cycle of construction and destruction. Ideas and phases; come, we implement, and then we let go.

Hina Hashmi

#2. The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. Our demise may instead result from the habitat destruction that ensues when the AI begins massive global construction projects using nanotech factories and assemblers - construction

Nick Bostrom

#4. A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Jose Saramago

#5. Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

Sue Townsend

#6. I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Gertrude Stein

#7. If you throw a stone in a pond ... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course ... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. What is the most important thing in your life?
For me, it is my freedom of mind, my freedom to choose my own ways of self-construction or self-destruction.

Preeti Bhonsle

#9. Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

Walt Whitman

#10. No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

James Larkin

#11. The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Norman O. Brown

#12. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

Helen Keller

#13. True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

Piet Mondrian

#14. It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.

Irvine Welsh

#15. Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Ray Bradbury

#16. Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Dean Cavanagh

#17. Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.

Thomas L. Friedman

#18. Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

L. Ron Hubbard

#19. Anger can be used for destruction and construction, It will be your decision that how you will use it.

Jignesh Ahir

#20. The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

William Blake

#21. It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Ludwig Von Mises

#22. The Corps does more with less than anyone else on the planet, so they always get less to do more with.

Evan Currie

#23. If human beings are in general too irrational and selfish to work out the challenges of social organization in a productive and positive manner, then they are far too irrational and selfish to be given the monopolistic violence of state power, or vote for their leaders.

Stefan Molyneux

#24. Emotionally, we are all the same.

Andrea N. Carr

#25. Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction.

M.F. Moonzajer

#26. According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.

Paulo Coelho

#27. I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Simon Armitage

#28. We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Anson Mount

#29. Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

William Booth

#30. This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

Julian Assange

#31. I leave out the parts that people skip.

Eric Schmidt

#32. Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

Mstislav Rostropovich