Destroyed Quotes - Page 37

• …Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

  Dan Brown

  Sunset, Self Worth, Mathematical Equations

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

  Madonna Ciccone

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• I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

  Nora Roberts

  Police, Records, Vehicle

  "Promises in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, 2008.

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• Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

  John Steinbeck

  Mean, Greatness, Victory

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.45, Penguin

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• It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Kindness, People, House

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.37, Penguin

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• You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Picture Of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

  Anne Bronte

  Crush, Eye, Rose

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• Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Fire, Views

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Ambition, Understanding

  "Education and the Significance of Life".

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• I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Talking, Moments, Universe

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• If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Small Problems

  Jim Stovall (2011). “The Ultimate Journey: A Novel”, p.79, David C Cook

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• Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Fire, Sheep

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

  Gavrilo Princip

  Men, Criminals, Bad Man

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• In the end, oh I know,
  never, in my haggard passion,
  have I ever been such a cadaver as now
  as I take again in hand my tables of the present—
  if reality's real, but after it's been
  destroyed in the eternal and the moment by
  the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Real, Passion, Hands

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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• Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

  Michael E. Mann

  Hockey, Icons, Would Be

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

  Paulo Coelho

  Air, House, Tree

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• The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Political, Chance, Fairs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

  Michael Franzese

  Gambling, People, Alcohol

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• Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Moving, Heart

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• Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

  Solomon

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Positivity

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• When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Gnosis, Goal

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• Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Buddhist, Cutting

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• It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

  Phillip Mann

  Struggle, Abandon

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