Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Geertz

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

Kathleen Blanco

kick us when we're down, to destroy hope when hope is all we have.

James Morgan

I think it's a joke, ... I thought this was a free country, and someone is telling me they are going to come destroy a member of my family.

Mike Lowell

He wanted to destroy the dugout after that first inning. But the way he threw, to be down one run after that inning, I'd take that.

Mike Lowell

He wanted to destroy the dugout after that first inning.

He used to destroy us the whole year.

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

He is very unselfish. At times he defers to his teammates, but I wish he had that killer instinct from start to finish where he is just going to destroy people.

Greenspan is not going to wake up in June of next year and say 'I should have really raised rates more aggressively.' His legacy of price stability is pretty secure so I don't think the last six months of his tenure will destroy it for him.

Stanley Williams

The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,

The only thing that is going to hurt them now is to raise their bid. That would destroy their stock price.

Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

The people that own this home their relatives own all of these homes and have owned these homes for generations, now some of these homes are destroyed but some of them are not destroyed, some of them need to be repaired.

Maurice Ager

We've been through things like this before. We're not going to let this destroy our whole season.

What we are talking about is 400,000 embryos that are going to be destroyed as medical waste.

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Unless we make efforts to destroy are miseries we can not become wealthy and prosperous.

Fats Domino

Hurricane Katrina led a path of destruction through my home. However, she would not destroy my faith in God and my love of music and my fans.

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.

It had started looking like Free File was going to destroy the industry.

Richard Boucher

He says it doesn't matter if people are socialist -- we're going to fight together with them to destroy everything that we can.

He gave a pardon to his son-in-law and then had him executed. He tried to make up with the Iraqi Kurds five years ago, and then tried to destroy them.

For more than 50 years of independence, we have seen secularist leaders destroy the country.

For more than 50 year's of independence, we have seen secularist leaders destroy the country.

I worked here for 28 years and this is a shame. I've seen lots of mergers and theaters come and go. But I wanted to take one last look before they destroy it.

Douglas Coupland

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

If they want to destroy the Iranian nation's rights by that course, they will not succeed.

Ron Moody

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

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.

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.