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Letter "D" » destruction
«You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
boldness, destruction, draws, fall into, root, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, with boldness
«We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction»
«Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Family,
Women
| Keywords:
carries, destruction, folded, folding, folds, fold up, mantle, mantled, mantles, salvation, The Family
«What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
| Keywords:
destruction, Holy Name, homeless, orphaned, orphans, The Dead, The name, totalitarianism, wrought
«With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night.»
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alone, broken, Burns, confining, destruction, drift, drifted, drifts, either, flame, flamed, force, held, In Flames, mid, or else, passion, rudder, ruling, rulings, sails, seas, sea a, standstill, toss, tosses, tossing, toss in, toss out, Toss Up, unattended
«When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
destruction, disfavor, disintegration, fall under, suspicion, swift, swiftest
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