Top 580 Destroy Quotes

People were always like, ‘Oh my God, you’re going to be working with your girlfriend? Are you freaking out? Is that going to, like, destroy your relationship?’ I think it emboldened the relationship.
Jeff Baena
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
Sebastian Junger
To be honest, I’ve made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we’re either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen
Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.
Daniel Greenberg
Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America’s most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, ‘Death to America.’ If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
Bill Flores
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
Ezra Taft Benson
I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
Jim Mattis
I train every day to destroy whoever they put in front of me.
Jose Aldo
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
I believe that when you are attacked like we were attac

I believe that when you are attacked like we were attacked in America by these terrorist groups, that we not only have to respond in kind, we’ve got to go farther. We’ve got to destroy these groups because just sure as we don’t – if we didn’t respond, we will be hit again and again and again, and we will live in fear.
Richard Shelby
I think for guys who get severely injured and can’t move forward, it’s because the ‘what-ifs’ absolutely destroy their recovery.
Kyle Carpenter
As consumers, we need to demand that companies sell us sustainable products that do not disregard and destroy our natural world.
Gisele Bundchen
I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.
Agnes Moorehead
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides
I think, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won’t destroy you.
Willem Dafoe
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown
It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.
Torsten Wiesel
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
John Shimkus
I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.
Mannie Fresh
Until we actually get legislation that protects our rights online, we will continue to fight against stupid, lobbyist-bought legislation. We want bills that protect us, not ones that destroy us.
Alexis Ohanian
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
William Blake
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
Margaret Thatcher
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
Peter Benchley
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
Terry Pratchett
Beeswax is always preferable to chemical polishes because it does not destroy the natural surface of wood.
David Linley
You can see that just with the passing, you can destroy the defense.
Nikola Jokic
Lindsey Graham has wavered on this, but I won’t: We need to ban offshore drilling. A spill off our beaches would destroy jobs and harm the coastal environment that makes South Carolina beautiful.
Jaime Harrison
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don’t you? Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Linus Torvalds
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop
If the U.S. wants to destroy ISIS, it can destroy ISIS. We won’t end terrorism around the world. But we can destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Prominent generals are telling us that. Prominent national-security strategists are telling us that. So let’s do it.
Lawrence Kudlow
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
Eliot Engel
‘National Review’ and ‘The Weekly Standard’ are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.
Steve Bannon
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it’s degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland
When I wrote my eighth thriller, ‘Inside Out,’ in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
Barry Eisler
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market economy in an adequate and correct way.
Nguyen Phu Trong
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
William Wells Brown
When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn’t think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.
Robert Redford
We should use every pillar of American power to destroy ISIS.
Todd Wilcox
It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fea

It’s not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
Federica Mogherini
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph
Cannes is a fun festival, but some people use it as a place to smash a movie, or to destroy it.
Karl Glusman
When you start over and jump into new tech, you don’t know what the negatives are going to be until you go through a few cycles. We’re always changing our tech, but we don’t wholly destroy it with each game. We’re taking parts out.
Todd Howard
We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas; we will destroy them today.
Mohammad bin Salman
It is time for President Obama to admit that – in this new age of peer-to-peer terror – we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.
Michael McCaul
A pressure cooker will destroy all lectin except gluten.
Steven Gundry
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have… whether you like it or not.
Josh McDowell
We will ensure Arizona continues to grow jobs, not destroy them.
Doug Ducey
I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think – with all the social media stuff – we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we’re way cooler than we know.
Meghan Trainor
We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.
Tom Cotton
I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
Simon Cowell
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess
When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we’re going to see the end of humanity, because I don’t know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.
Eve Ensler
I looked at Robert Downey, Jr. and all these people – when you ask for redemption, people will give it to you. But if you’re the boy who cried wolf, they’ll destroy you.
Scooter Braun
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don’t want genocide. We don’t want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
Alveda King
We have to destroy stereotypes in people’s minds that Belarus can be isolated or taught a lesson.
Alexander Lukashenko