Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Waylon Jennings

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Kim Alexis

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

Bayard Rustin

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

Eugenie Scott

This would, of course, not open up science but destroy it.

This wouldn't just weaken the law, it would destroy the law.

Glenn Greenwald

The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

Pat Robertson

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

I think that most people gave up on the idea that information was destroyed once the idea of string theory rose to prominence in 1995. It's just that nobody has been able to prove that the information survives before now.

Clifford Geertz

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

Peter Orszag

We should shore up the program, but we don't need to destroy it in order to save it.

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

Elizabeth May

We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for George W. Bush. Together we can save the climate. Together we will stop fossil fuels from destroying our future.

Two vehicles got destroyed on the same patrol.

Cindy Sheehan

Two thousand families have been destroyed for nothing,

Erik Erikson

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Chris Pine

I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.

Don Johnson

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Andrew Stanton

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.

Richard M. Nixon

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Antonin Scalia

Why isn't there a fear of extortion if the speech could help destroy his business?

We've destroyed iraq, we've destroyed any credibility we have in the world.

Billy Graham

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves.

Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

Samuel P. Huntington

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.