Destroyed Quotes - Page 24

• If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Self, People, Greed

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• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

  Aime Cesaire

  Talking, Land, Essence

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• It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Anything for Billy". Book by Larry McMurtry, 1988.

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• This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Technique, Brutality

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• Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

  Pope Pius IX

  Mean, Pests, Socialism

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• Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.

  Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  Life, Faith, Baseball

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• After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the disaffected band dispersed or destroyed. The result has been creditable to the troops engaged in the service. Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Band, Lessons

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• When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

  Trent Reznor

  Failing, Stage, Instruments

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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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• I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

  Homer

  Kings, Soil, Serfs

  "Odyssey". Poem by Homer,

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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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• If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

  Curt Flood

  Sports, Squash, Ugly

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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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• Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Cancer, Healing, Medicine

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• And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (pg. 98)

  Yann Martel

  Giving, Shining, Bird

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Long, People, Imagination

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• In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Iraq, Feet

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Encouragement, Children, Husband

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• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

  Antonin Artaud

  Beautiful, Reading, May

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press

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• Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with you. John Cena isn't here because I destroyed him in our match, this past week, in Pennsylvania. And number two, you're not the leader of the Nexus, I am.

  Wade Barrett

  Past, Wwe, Two

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• Abracadabra, thus we learn
  The more you create, the less you earn.
  The less you earn, the more you're given,
  The less you lead, the more you're driven,
  The more destroyed, the more they feed,
  The more you pay, the more they need,
  The more you earn, the less you keep,
  And now I lay me down to sleep.
  I pray the Lord my soul to take
  If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Needs

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment of responsibility. You assume that you own the planet. And ownership confers upon you the right to do as you like. You do not own this beautiful planet. You are simply a guest here.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Beautiful, Responsibility, Earth

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