Destroyers Quotes - Page 6

• Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

  Dan Brown

  Angel, Enemy, Battle

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.44, Random House

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• Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.

  Richelle Mead

  Ignorance, Evil, Genius

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.137, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love, Christian, Dream

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on Artemis for killing the one thing she loved most in the universe. (Katra) And that is? (Cassandra) I would never betray either one by saying it. (Katra) Would you write it down?...Oh, yeah, like the two of you weren’t thinking the same thing. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Revenge, Hate

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• He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. "You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Father, Lying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Nuclear, Gita, World

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• How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Europe, Helping, Speak

  "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim Fest, p. 171, 1999.

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• Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters forever, and the German example after the German victory in World War II will also serve to bring about the destruction of the Jewish world tormentors on other continents.

  Julius Streicher

  War, People, Forever

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 57), 1997.

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• Those who murder fame
  Kill more than life destroyers.

  Richard Savage

  Murder, Fame, Slander

  Richard Savage (1775). “The Works of Richard Savage, Esq., Son of the Earl Rivers: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.141

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• I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

  Tucker Max

  Shiva, World

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.223, Citadel

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• Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

  Wendy Doniger

  Mother, Wine, Understanding

  Wendy Doniger (1988). “Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism”, p.135, Manchester University Press

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• The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Telephones, Visitors

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

  William Cobbett

  Drinking, Beer, Views

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!

  Zoroaster

  Past, Light, Enemy

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• Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

  Humphry Davy

  Consistency, Intellectual, Energy

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.53

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• Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

  Belle Boyd

  Saws

  Belle Boyd (1998). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.265, LSU Press

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• Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

  William Plomer

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”

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• For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Warrior, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.471

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• Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

  John Armstrong

  Sex, Revenge, Mean

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Moving, Spirit

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

  Faramir

  War, Towers, Swiftness

  "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sheep, Agreement, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

  Plutarch

  Real, People, Democracy

  "Paul Ryan Echoes Ronald Reagan's Goldwater Presidential Campaign Speech" by Garance Franke-Ruta, www.theatlantic.com. August 29, 2012.

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  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  Pythagoras

  Health, Animal, Men

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• One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Profound, Mind

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