Destructive Quotes - Page 22

• That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

  Horace

  Sloth, Sirens, Laziness

  "Satires". II. 3. 14,

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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Meaningful, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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• Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

  Grenville Kleiser

  House, Mind, Assassins

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

  Alfre Woodard

  Believe, People, Different

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• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stupid, Worst Enemy, Self

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• A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, People, Healthy

  "Spiritual Partnerships" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

  Whitney Houston

  Self, Want, Persons

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• Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

  Kristin Davis

  Nice, Wine, Self

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

  Rob Bell

  Giving Up, Heart, Thinking

  "Hello, Rob Bell - The Interview". Interview with Skye Jethani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Trying, Energy

  "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

  Paula Fox

  People, Lovely, Kind

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• I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hate, Self, Opposites

  "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

  Helen Garner

  Echoes, Age, Looks

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• My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Kids, Defense

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Children, Believe, Sacrifice

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Mean, House

  "The Quotable Mom". Book edited by Kate Rowinski, 2004.

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• It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

  William E. Gladstone

  Death, Science, Action

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• "How could you love something so destructive?" I ask. "Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same."

  Jonathan Messinger

  Heart, Care, Taste

  Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.68, featherproof books

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• The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Stronger, Adages

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• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Party, Rocks, Self

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• I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

  Kirk Hammett

  Self, Twenties, Bits

  "Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. December, 1997.

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• The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

  Joshua Jackson

  Thinking, America, Elitist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Psychics, Practice, Black

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• We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  War, Loss, Hands

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• I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

  Karen O

  Self, Years, Self Destructive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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