A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

Alessandra Mussolini
Alessandra Mussolini

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

Alexi Giannoulias
Alexi Giannoulias

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Anthony Storr
Anthony Storr

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Arthur Lewis
Arthur Lewis

Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Charles B. Rangel
Charles B. Rangel

Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.

Charles Marion Russell
Charles Marion Russell

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.