Destroys

Famous quotes containing the word destroys:

“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)