Destroyed Quotes

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.