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I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

Matt Groening

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Aesop

A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.

Chinese Proverb

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Thomas Moore

It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.

Phaedrus

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

For that group, the destruction of the Jews is the endgame.

David Elcott

War is the science of destruction.

John Abbott

Along with the destruction, there has been some good.

Guthrie Perry

Creative destruction is our middle name .

Michael Ledeen

Unfortunately, you need a storm to hit and cause a considerable amount of destruction for it to be retired.

Chris Vaccaro

It's unbelievable, ... There's going to be a lot of destruction out there.

Tommy Davis

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Mikhail Bakunin

While preserving covert weapons of mass destruction.

John Weston

What we are looking at is someone who attempted to bring destruction to that building.

John Hageman

The destruction of the airplane certainly can hinder the investigation, but even with destruction as we've had with this airplane, there are clues in the wreckage that we can gather.

John Brannen

And these horrible acts almost always include terrible death and destruction.

Hilton Sutton

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

James Matthews

Weapons of mass destruction are here in our own country and we have to cease fire.

Shane Price

A lot of us have been kind of disappointed because we haven't been where the major destruction was.

John Coleman

The amazing part is that there appears to be a lack of any motive behind this except destruction.

David Mayer

I was blown away by the amount of destruction. And the slowness that is still going on in rebuilding it.

John Magnie

An agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.

Robert Novak

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

Simón Bolívar

I'm outraged. The whole community is outraged because they can't be in the games and because of the continued destruction of the program.

Rhonda Taylor

We are deeply concerned about the destruction of property and injury to law enforcement personnel.

Greg Urwin

If there is none, there may be wrong decisions or destruction or damage to our natural resources.

David Li

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

John Cory

Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing.

Ayman Al zawahri

Nothing could have created such destruction except maybe an atomic bomb.

Catherine Johnson

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

Dave Navarro

The fashion business has always had this problem trying to deal with self-destruction.

Stephen Fried

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Howard Thurman

It's going to be harder to read because of the destruction.

Andres Duany

We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.

James Wolfensohn

Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Bible

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Bob Marley

I've never seen so much destruction and hope that I never will again. There's no way that I could forget that and no way I could not go back.

Cathy Collentine

Beyond making lemonade out of lemons it's the idea that out of destruction comes creation.

Bonnie Clearwater

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Sara Barwinski

''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame

A scene of complete destruction.

Brent Sadler

Sales show no clear evidence of demand destruction.

Deutsche Bank

This kind of policy would bring nothing but more bloodshed, more chaos and more destruction to Iraq.

Adnan Dulaimi

It left a lot of destruction, but as far as chemically, we're not really seeing anything different than what was here before.

Tom Harris

We saw nothing but sheer destruction.

Dan Taylor

If you can compare anything to a weapon of mass destruction on a community it's methamphetamine.

Jack Riley

The drugs clearly aren't stopping the destruction of brain tissue.

M. Thompson

Man, we were weeping, ... I've never seen so much destruction.

David Ross

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Edwin Way Teale

It is called destruction before reconstruction. People will have to see the danger of war, the hopelessness of war, before things can improve.

Elizabeth Joyce