You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don’t let them destroy you.
There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.
The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.
If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Political art – not always a contradiction in terms – can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
I do worry that as we try to fix this long-term debt and deficit situation that we don’t destroy the market incentives for biomedical research. What I fear is the government using its considerable clout to say, ‘Here’s the price we’re setting for your medicines.’
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person’s life – and then publicize it for profit.
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.
That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.
Politicians don’t like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.
For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there’s this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.
When you seek to destroy somebody, all you do is empower them, because they feel like, ‘you see? They don’t want us to have our rights to feel the way we want to feel.’ And they get more and more emboldened and more and more empowered.
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can’t break.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.
I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.
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.
I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It’s a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I’ll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It’s amazing.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
I don’t campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don’t really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.
I’m particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
Corruption is Ukraine’s main enemy; we must destroy it. It’s really painful to hear that Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe.
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they’re this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
When I’m in the studio, I’m very cautious about it because if there’s one thing that can destroy music being made, it’s any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family’s lives.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
To disarm a troll, you don’t try and destroy them straight away, you take onboard what they’re saying and then destroy them.
Nobody destroys people – people destroy themselves, and it’s very, very sad.
I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
With abolition, it’s necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it’s equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?
It’s hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
I strive to destroy fear and judgment that once stifled me.
I believe Theresa May has failed as leader of our party, which she threatens to destroy.
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I don’t have any plans. I don’t have a map. If you did in this business, you’d destroy yourself.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
