Quotes with destroy
We found 69 quotes.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
French writer 1888-1948
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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
English poet 1757-1827
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
American science-fiction writer 1920-
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We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
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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.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
American novelist 1892-1973
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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
British writer 1628-1688
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
British writer, criticus 1917-1993
