The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
Time destroys everything.
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
When men are put into these types of circumstances like Bigger in ‘Native Son,’ or Fonny in ‘Beale Street,’ it destroys relationships, their love, their relationships with their children – it’s under attack.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
The Green New Deal fundamentally destroys our economy and does a lot of other weird stuff, too.
Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.
I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
What feeds me destroys me.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
‘Revolutionary Road’ with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
You don’t want communism. You don’t want this socialism. This is what destroys countries and lives.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I’ve worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.
Suffering is always hard to quantify – especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer’s. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer’s destroys the mind – and in the process, annihilates the very self.
The worst evil is – and that’s the product of censorship – is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
A normal recession disrupts people’s lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
I’ve experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
Soft playing destroys the integrity of the game of poker, and it’s wrong – flat out wrong.
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
I can’t get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn’t work for very long. It’s an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we’re building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard – very hard – to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
Nobody destroys people – people destroy themselves, and it’s very, very sad.
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
A surprising number of people – including many students of literature – will tell you they haven’t really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
Meetings should be like salt – a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man’s only promise.
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra… The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you’re having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you’re awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.
The use of computers and other mobile devices has to be so carefully controlled. As we discovered with ‘Dream School’ rather awkwardly, it can become a source of total disruption that destroys the co-operative learning experience.
Vanity destroys your work. That’s the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don’t care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she’s more than just pretty.
A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.
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