#destroy

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

#arrows #back #believe #between #complaints

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. ↗

— William Temple

#destroy #discourage #health #ill #keep

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#because #between #child #destroyer #greatest

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#actually #bodies #destroyed #ever #individual

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#cocktails #destroyed #dinner #even #friends

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#context #create #death #destroy #disappear

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#janet-fitch #white-oleander #nature

What if he can't save me? What if trying destroys us both? ↗

— Jessica Fortunato

#heart #love #save #love

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

#destroys #document #ever #only #person

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ↗