Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thinking of you. Sorry that the storm destroyed your home and school. Hope you are better and stay safe.

This government, that destroyed 1,500 homes and lives, but doesn't want to destroy 40 former synagogues we can only say, 'Can you possible destroy, and then look away?

You would never think a 30-foot tidal wave would destroy your house.

Winston Churchill

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

Elizabeth Pena

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

John Chaney

We ran into the rifleman. They put it all together, and they just destroyed us. Everybody had a gun but us.

Charles Bukowski

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

Culling has begun. We are taking the help of farm workers also to destroy the poultry.

And we want to solve this in a more precise way where we don't end up destroying the city.

Matthew Yglesias

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.

Tim Ryan

Emma is just as fiery, and determined to destroy Vienna and take over the town - even if she has to destroy it.

Peter Hain

Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

either we communicate with each other or we destroy each other. If we do not help that 80 percent of the population in poverty, nobody will live a human life.

Ehud Olmert

Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.

We've had six or seven houses and two mobile homes destroyed but there were no serious injuries. They were lucky.

Every January, there is an order that is issued to destroy all operational records.

At the end of the day, does it really destroy investor confidence, does it really result in Indonesia being less able to service its debt, does it totally discourage tourism? It's much less of an impact than that.

Divorce looks like one of the fastest ways to destroy your wealth.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

We have 8,000 to 10,000 homes that were destroyed and haven't been rebuilt. Another 2,000 to 3,000 still probably have to be torn down, and several thousand people are still without roofs.

Mary Robinson

You hear and read of the destruction, see pictures, ... very devastating ... to come and see row after row of blackened, destroyed homes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy

Hanna Rosin

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

David Ebershoff

What type of woman would stay with her husband through this? ... She was a woman who would do anything to help her marriage survive. She wanted to help her husband finally become happy, though ultimately that would destroy her marriage.

William Douglas

We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here.

Hans Blix

We want to be serious when we come forward with accusations, as we were when ordering the Iraqis to destroy a very large missile program.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

Noam Chomsky

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Zach Galligan

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Victor LaValle

Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

We know that as young football stars they have the money and live lives that their peers only dream of. They are sometimes tempted and there are people lurking on the side (waiting) to destroy them and their careers.

Conrad Black

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such as) letters or personal papers, are shredded. We keep them as long as we can and we run things past the historical society before they are destroyed to rule out historical significance.