Destroying Quotes - Page 6

• It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Opposites, Very Good

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.466, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Fire, Ice

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• You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

  Daniel Quinn

  Order, Captivity, Goes On

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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• [A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

  Daniel Quinn

  Order, Support, Community

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• The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Fighting, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.57, Routledge

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• This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.

  Christopher Pike

  Age, Problem

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

  Rajneesh

  Self Esteem, Cancer, Unique

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• The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

  Philippa Gregory

  Brother, Uncles, Father

  Philippa Gregory (2009). “The White Queen”, Simon and Schuster

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• Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?" "No." "In that case . . . I hope you enjoy disappointment." We scowled at each other in silence. I was the first to speak, trying to keep myself focused. I was in danger of being distracted by his livid, glorious face. It was like trying to stare down a destroying angel. "Why did you even bother?" I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. "I don't know," he whispered.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Disappointment, Angel, Silence

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• Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Leaving, Doubt

  Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.32, Knopf

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• When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Giving, Feelings

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• Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Resources, Left Alone, Plague

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.84, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Culture, Pals, Laziness

  Scott Westerfeld (2005). “So Yesterday”, p.53, Penguin

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• I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.

  Marguerite Duras

  Sweet, I Like You, Night

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• Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Want, Path

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• My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

  Iain Banks

  Hate, Stupid, Men

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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  The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Suffering, Quality

  "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.

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• Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Revenge, Men, Risk

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.181, Courier Dover Publications

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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Home, World

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• We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, World, Way

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.130, Bantam

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• Bad jokes, and gay marriage are destroying this country - but torture can save it.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gay, Politics

  "Jon Stewart Defends Wanda Sykes Venom - With Weird Comparisons to Waterboarding". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.newsbusters.org. May 11, 2009.

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• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Hurt, Pride

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• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

  John Mason Brown

  Education, Children, Reason

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