Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.
If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.
In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.
Action will destroy your procrastination.
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.
But once you describe something, you destroy it.
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt. . . It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.
I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.
In order to contract, It is necessary first to expand. In order to weaken, It is necessary first to strengthen. In order to destroy, It is first necessary to promote. In order to grasp, It is necessary first to give. This is called subtle light. The weak and the tender overcome the hard and the strong.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.