Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.
Conflict, when mismanaged, destroys.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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.
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
Time destroys everything.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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 death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.
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.
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.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
What feeds me destroys me.
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.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
