Destroyed Quotes - Page 10

• England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Strong, Team

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

  Amy Tan

  Life, Lovely

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• It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.

  Ted Andrews

  Essence, Energy

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

  Heinrich Himmler

  War, World, Problem

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• Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.

  Mark Leiren-Young

  Mean, Together, Mountain

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• God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Chaos, Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama

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• Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

  Enoch Powell

  Space, Transcendental, Realms

  "The revival of Tory philosophy" by John Casey, www.spectator.co.uk. March 14, 2007.

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• If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the Qur'an cannot be done with fire; it is destroyed when we fail to remember & practice its lessons in our daily lives. If this occurs, then it is ANOTHER fire that you should truly be concerned about!

  Lupe Fiasco

  Pain, Book, Fire

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• I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Thinking, Glasses

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep
  seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We
  think that there is something hiding reality and that
  this must be destroyed before reality is gained.
  How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh
  ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day
  you laugh is also here and now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Reality, Thinking

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• Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Self Esteem, Communication, Character

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• There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

  Barbara Stocking

  Kindness, Helping Others, World

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• After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Army, Iraq

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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• They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

  Tony Blair

  Iraq, Could Have Been, Has Beens

  "Blair: Iraqi WMD May Never Be Found", www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2004.

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• I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago - whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

  David Petraeus

  War, Mean, Wmd

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• Everything is energy. All matter is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It is the cause and affect of itself. It is evenly present in all places, at all times. Energy is in constant motion and never rests. It is forever moving from one form to another. Energy follows thought.

  Jack Canfield

  Positive, Moving, Law Of Attraction

  Jack Canfield, D. D. Watkins (2007). “Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams”, p.11, Health Communications, Inc.

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• All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Marriage, My Family, Over It

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• In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

  Rick Renzi

  Country, Years, Law

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• The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

  Dean Koontz

  Cheating, Lying, Ignorance

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• The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

  Ron Chernow

  Ties, Paper, Assets

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• Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

  Tom Hayden

  Beach, Character, Venice

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