The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite

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.
Florence King

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.
Milos Forman

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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.
Twyla Tharp

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
Joseph Rotblat

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Sitting Bull

Time destroys everything.
Monica Bellucci

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.
Paul Valery

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.
Michael McCaul

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What feeds me destroys me.
Christopher Marlowe

What nourishes me also destroys me.
Angelina Jolie

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony Storr