Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying
The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying.
I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-" "By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.
Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.
Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else. . . I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
Capitalism is destroying the earth.
We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.