Quotes about Destroying

Actor, Director, Writer, Producer

You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

Change - Destroying - Mornings - Plan - Planet - Playing

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Death - Destroying - Memory

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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

Destroying - Hilarious - Joking - Thinking - Universal - Wit - World

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

Destroying - Frankness - Honesty - Oneself - Paradox - Vulnerability

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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Destroying - God

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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

Certainty - Destroying - Kindness - Man - Reward - Teaching - Wellness

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

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.

Belief - Destroying - Devil - Holiness - Memory

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Destroying - Problem - Real

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Salvador Dali

Artist, Painter

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Destroying - Destructiveness - Limits

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Dante Alighieri

Poet

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Change - Destroying - Linguistics - Muse - Sweet

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

Betrayal - Destroying - Grace - Imagination - Loss - Return - World

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

Destroying - Destructiveness - Emotions - Envy - Hate - Human - Leadership - Man - Mankind - Nations - Passion - Payment - Prophecy - Revenge - Sovereignty - Spiritual - State - Teaching - Transformation - Worship

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Leonardo da Vinci

Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Polymath

Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.

Destroying - Feelings - Man - Movement

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

Ability - Accept - Belief - Creating - Destroying - Evolution - Father - Man - Theory

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed.

Destroying

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Destroying

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Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author

One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

Conditioning - Destroying - Oneself

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

Destroying - Existence - Man - Morals

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Jonathan Swift

Writer, Poet, Cleric

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

Consumer - Destroying - Fault - Growing - Mindset - Overcome

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

Ability - Certainty - Children - Dawn - Destroying - Employment - Encouragement - Husband - Incentive - Order - Practice - Stupid - Trial

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