Decimate Quotes & Sayings

These aren't two solos, this is a duet that isn't taking itself at all seriously. — David Levithan

During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice. — Leon Panetta

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness. — Keanu Reeves

You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry — Dale Carnegie

All beginnings are very troublesome things ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial. — Christopher Alexander

All leaders need to ask questions, but they also need to assist in providing answers, to bridge the gap between questions and answers. — Pearl Zhu

Ultimately, the Populists caved to the pressure and abandoned their former allies. "While the [Populist] movement was at the peak of zeal," Woodward observed, "the two races had surprised each other and astonished their opponents by the harmony they achieved and the good will with which they co-operated."27 But when it became clear that the conservatives would stop at nothing to decimate their alliance, the biracial partnership dissolved, and Populist leaders re-aligned themselves with conservatives. Even Tom Watson, who had been among the most forceful advocates for an interracial alliance of farmers, concluded that Populist principles could never be fully embraced by the South until blacks were eliminated from politics. — Michelle Alexander

But as Derek watched himself holding Ginger in the mirror over the sink, her smaller, trembling body engulfed by his naked arms and chest, he felt the furthest thing from unaffected. Every sob or shudder that moved through her robbed him of breath. Derek wanted to decimate her sadness and anything causing it. Feeling powerless, he rubbed circles on her back with one hand. — Tessa Bailey

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder. — Ken Rosenthal

I'm focused on the sky above us. The clouds float there so nicely, form a set of shapes, and then float some more to change to a different one. Wouldn't it be so easy to be like that - change, shift, adjust - without so much as a thought of the next storm about to roll in threatening to decimate you. — K. Bromberg

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. — Haruki Murakami

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers. — Matt Cartwright

Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world — Jeremy Clarkson

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth. — James Morcan

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it. — Max Brooks

Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are. — Jerry Vlasak

I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department. — Richard Brautigan

Fathom curled his claws around the brown sphere and brought his snout close to it, feeling quite silly indeed. — Tui T. Sutherland

The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea ... is freedom ... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices. — John Quincy Adams

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character. — Avijeet Das

I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream. — Jim Steinman

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. — George Bernard Shaw

Did you have to try for a while?" He thought it a bold question, coming from a stranger. But he was honest with her, his thoughts still loose from the spiked lemonade. "Would you believe, with Maya it happened the first time," he said. He remembered how proud he'd felt, how powerful. The first time in his life he'd had sex without contraception a life had begun. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated. — Malcolm X

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after. — Bill Rodgers

They're coming! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery. — Andrew Pyper

They want to create rather than decimate. — Paul Butterfield