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“All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.”

Draws Destruction Decay Our Love

Author:John Donne

“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”

Feels Ideas Real Reality Form Lying Behinds Issues Example Expression Draws Destruction Appearance Drawing Visuals Urges Capture Erase Outward Appearance

Author:Antoni Tapies

“I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's what I love about playing the character. People are so quick to draw conclusions about who he is. The whole thing about Loki is that he's dancing on this liminal line between redemption and destruction. Just be very careful about drawing conclusions based on what you see.”

People Whole Character Lines Draws Destruction Dancing Careful Drawing Conclusion Redemption Supposition Drawing Conclusions

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.”

People Men Long Hands America Black Community Lines Draws Destruction Racist One Man Trends Progression Halt Black Community

Book:Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

Source: Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.”

“Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.”

Firsts May Littles Done Company Draws Destruction Difficulty Blow Woods Driven Posts Nails Bad Company

Author:Saint Augustine

“I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.”

“I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.”

Believe Humans God Spiritual Moving Time Spirituality Belief I Believe Nature Destiny Strength Draws Destruction Absolutes Harmony Cruelty Spiritual Power Moving Away

Author:Jane Goodall

“A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.”

Men Whole Body Hands Evil Arms Essentials Draws Garden Destruction Legs Gardening Coats Machinery Irresistible Skirts Pernicious

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“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.”

Life Together Fall Path Arms Disease Draws Roots Destruction Boldness

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.”

Way Writing Mean Self Suffering Bits Difficult Lines Secret Draws Crosses Destruction Prison Core Redemption Borders Taboo Being Afraid Self Destruction Borderline

Author:Christa Wolf

“Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.”

“The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.”

Needs Causes Levels Creative Effects Creation Higher Demand Draws Connections Destruction Evolve Permanent Reasoning Stable Cause And Effect Higher Level

Author:Andrea Zittel

“All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”

Years Firsts Running Lasts Sun Saws Kings Tomorrow Honor Glory Draws Destruction Wit Yesterday Decay Our Love Everlasting Elders Elderly Making Time Hash

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.”

Values Turns Hours Draws Destruction Strive Hunts

Book:The Journals

Source: The Journals