Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you’re going to have friction.
Resources are being destroyed, and if you don’t have resources, you can’t do business.
Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can’t trust people.
After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn’t sleep for five straight nights.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a ‘man.’ And it destroyed my dad.
When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople, we would have totally destroyed Secureworks. Instead, it remained Secureworks but with capital from Dell and access to Dell’s customers. And now, it’s a great business.
I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age – to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis.
The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There’s so much good things on Earth, still. We haven’t destroyed everything.
Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
After his success in the Tour of Italy and Tour de France in the same year, Pantani certainly made mistakes – but he was targeted by Italian justice who never let him go. I believe it was that that destroyed him.
Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots… It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.
The report I remember most vividly from school is the one I destroyed before I got home, telling my parents I’d lost it. Three words stood out, and still do: ‘Must try harder’.
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.
COVID-19! I blow the wind of God on you! You are destroyed forever.
I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it’s nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It’s a shame they’ve destroyed my love for the game.
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
I want to see ISIS destroyed.
Safety’ hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.
John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house.
A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They’re not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.
As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
A budget matters to Americans who can’t afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.
We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.
Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension – and we’re too polite to talk about it.
Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford’s was.
I cry all the time – at work, at the shrink’s, with my lady. ‘The Notebook’ killed me. ‘Up’ destroyed me.
The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything He tells you. Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God’s people and utterly destroyed.
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I’d always get a shiny new one the very next day.
It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
Reputations can be built, attacked, and destroyed on social media. It’s a huge game-changer – instantaneously emboldening adversaries and shortening the ride for any corporate or personal brand.
The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.
Because we don’t see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God’s existence and goodness.
The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas’s tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for ‘positive images’ of lesbians.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.
I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism.
For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you’re brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you’re still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.
