Havoc Quotes

• In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

  Bill Vaughan

  Communication, Anger, Doors

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• Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Two, People

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Book, Garden, Tears

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• A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Fall, Fighting, Animal

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• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Creating, Evil, Enemy

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• The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Children, Two, America

  "Solving the world's hunger and obesity crises together" by Ellen Gustafson, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, War, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

  Richard Dooling

  Running, Intelligent, Mad

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• I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Environment, Fascinated

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• A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Flower

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• You are all you will ever have for certain.

  June Havoc

  Certain

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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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• Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Weather, Quality, Profit Margin

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• Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

  Renee Fleming

  Play, Personal Life

  "Portrait of the artist: Renée Fleming, soprano". Interview with Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  Salman Rushdie

  History, Purity, Explanation

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

  Russ Carnahan

  Israel, Iran, Doubt

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.

  Rick Larsen

  Country, Community, Drug

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• For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Art, Play, Logic

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• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

  Arundhati Roy

  Believe, Nuclear, Weapons

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.49, Haymarket Books

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• We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

  Tom Peters

  Doors, Innovation, Opening

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• The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.

  Allen West

  Angel, Eagles, Visits You

  "Allen West Would Invoke ‘Angel Of Death’ At UN, He Says" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

  Margaret Way

  Joy, Magic, Quality

  Miranda Lee, Margaret Way (2003). “Australian Nights”, Harlequin Books

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• One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mean, Democracies Have, Law

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 100), 1973.

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