Devastation Quotes

• Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Knowing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

  Rashida Jones

  Disappointment, Heartache, Looks

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• There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Grief, Forever, Bereavement

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Soul, Erotic, Vandalism

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• If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Loss, Greatest Fear

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

  Daniel Quinn

  Destiny, Men, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

  Martin Rees

  Water, Enemy, Pressure

  "The global village will have its village idiots". The European Interview, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Blood, Republic

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• After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

  Tyson Chandler

  Wife, Needs, News

  "Tyson Chandler Volunteers In The Rockaways: Talking To The Knicks Star About Sandy Relief Efforts". Huffington Post New York Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

  Connie Sellecca

  Beach, Wall, Reality

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• I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Real, Fate, Important

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

  Michael C. Burgess

  War, Looks, Kingdoms

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• Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Love Is, Mars

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• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Men, Squares, Giving

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• Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

  Paul Gillmor

  Gasoline, Hurricanes, Common

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• You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.

  Jim Rohn

  Weed, Hate, Garden

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 07, 2015

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• The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

  Gordon Wright

  Past, Bricks And Mortar, Sorrow

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• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Order, African Union

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• We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

  Hugh Shelton

  World, Obvious, Horrible

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  Possessing the Secret of Joy epigraph (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 9

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• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  Katherine Dunn

  War, Long, Romance

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• Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.

  Jo Bonner

  Recovery, Two, Hurricanes

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• There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

  John Hickenlooper

  New Orleans, Looks, Planning

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• If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.

  Clive Anderson

  Moving, Home, Cutting

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