Famous quotes containing the word destroyed:
“Laughter not time destroyed my voice
And put that crack in it,
And when the moons pot-bellied
I get a laughing fit....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Hume in 1737.”
—Sydney Smith (17711845)
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
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