Destroying Things Quotes

• Destroying things is much easier than making them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Inspirational, Hunger Games Book, Easier

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt. But once you got freedom from, then you need freedom to. Freedom from is about destroying things. Freedom to is about constructing things, constructing the rule of law.

  Thomas Friedman

  Egypt, Law, Needs

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• I wish I could have built without destroying things.

  Sergei Polunin

  Wish, Destroying, Built

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• I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

  Sergei Polunin

  Wish, Destroying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Moving, Mean

  "The Henry Rollins Show", April 13, 2007.

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• Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Gun, What Matters

  "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

  James Frey

  Running, Want, Destroying

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.117, Anchor

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• It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Opposites, Destroying

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.466, Scholastic Inc.

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• You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cities, Mind, Together

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Extras”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Girl, Order, Years

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.354, Penguin

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• You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Way, Destruction, Destroying

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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