destroy Quotes

“They know it will cause floods, which will destroy their homes and also their loved ones. ”

A stunning novel based on the true story of the Great Plague that came to Eyam, England in 1665, and nearly destroyed the village. The disease arrives in a parcel of dress patterns, and within 14 months, destroys 267 of the village’s 350 inhabitants.

“It frightened her to see the ferocity with which they had destroyed the little thing.”

“I’m going to give you a very good rule that was given to me a college and I have always been abundantly grateful for it. When you have written something that you think is really good, destroy it. Destroy it.”

“I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it’s passing.”

“You have tried to destroy me and though I perish daily, I shall not be moved.”

Before the nuclear bomb that destroyed their northern England town (and many others), Danny Lodge, his little brother Ben and his father kept a little convenience shop.

“The Devil has a great reputation for destroying what honest men would be glad to see out of the way!”

“The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one.”

“How do you tell the person you’ve spent four years trying to destroy that you have a crush on them?”

These are new laws indeed / By which Zeus tyrannically rules; / And the great powers of the past he now destroys.

“Mistakes were meant to be learned from, overcome. They weren’t meant to destroy.”

“She remembers the Buddha’s words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it. And with those words, she has her book’s end.”

“The fear of loss …it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.”

“One plan, however insane and unlikely, to free the enslaved kingdom: find and obliterate the Wyrdkeys the King of Adarlan had used to build his terrible empire. She’d gladly destroy herself to carry it out.”

“How can you render the duties of justice to men when you’re afraid they’ll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you?”

“The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands.”