Zitat des Tages über Zerstört / Destroys:
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.
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.
When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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 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.
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.
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.
Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.
There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.
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.
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.