„613. An Hour may destroy what an Age was a building.“
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
„What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway!“
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Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997Related quotes
„We are now taking steps towards building trust ... which doesn't happen overnight.“
— Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah 1971
Source: Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah (2022) cited in " Kuwaiti foreign minister visits Lebanon to mend Gulf standoff https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/22/kuwaiti-foreign-minister-visits-lebanon-to-mend-gulf-standoff" on Aljazeera, 22 January 2022.
— James Anthony Froude, book The Nemesis of Faith
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
— Eknath Easwaran spiritual teacher, author of books on meditation and spiritual practice, and translator and interpreter of Indian liter… 1910 - 1999
[Your life is your message: Finding harmony with yourself, others, and the earth, Easwaran, Eknath, w:Eknath Easwaran, 1997, Hyperion, New York, 0786882662, http://books.google.com/books?id=xKlCo3suzTkC&pg=PA42&dq=Patience+can%27t+be+acquired+overnight.+It+is+just+like+building+up+a+muscle.+Every+day+you+need+to+work+on+it+inauthor:eknath+inauthor:easwaran&hl=en&ei=9UCVTqyUKuKsiAKB1oy6CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Patience%20can%27t%20be%20acquired%20overnight.%20It%20is%20just%20like%20building%20up%20a%20muscle.%20Every%20day%20you%20need%20to%20work%20on%20it%20inauthor%3Aeknath%20inauthor%3Aeaswaran&f=false] (p. 42) (work originally published 1992)
„Charity destroys, work builds.“
— Baba Amte Indian freedom fighter, social worker 1914 - 2008
After 50 years what democracy is this?
— Haruki Murakami, book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Variant: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Sormerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.
„You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.“
— Chuck Palahniuk American novelist, essayist 1962
— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran 1919 - 1980
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 552
Attributed
„Unfortunately, it is easier to destroy a country than to re-build it.“
— Robert Sarah Roman Catholic bishop 1945
God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith (2015)
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
1962, Address at Independence Hall
„You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variant: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
„It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.“
— Isabel II do Reino Unido queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations 1926
1957 Christmas Broadcast; quoted on royal website http://www.royal.gov.uk/imagesandbroadcasts/thequeenschristmasbroadcasts/christmasbroadcasts/christmasbroadcast1957.aspx (25 December 1957)
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Forever Young
