Destructive Quotes - Page 23

• For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.

  Renee Olstead

  Hair, Self, Years

  "My Life Before ‘Secret Life’" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Impatient

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• In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

  Nikki Reed

  School, Insecure, Adults

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• One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Together, Losing

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• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

  George Stephanopoulos

  Selfish, Stupid, Intelligent

  George Stephanopoulos (1999). “All Too Human: A Political Education”

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• People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snakes, People, Energy

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• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

  Ralph Steadman

  Reform, Development, Way

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• But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

  Andrew Tobias

  Successful, Winning, Self

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

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• It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Other Worlds

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• If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.

  John Assaraf

  Hands, Overcoming, Negative

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jan 28, 2013

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• It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.

  Smiley Blanton

  Fear, Long Ago, Capacity

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• There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

  Joy Williams

  Writing, Process, Writing Process

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• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Flow, Degrees

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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• While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, People, Demand

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

  Thomas Merton

  Suicidal, Evil, World

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.222, Image

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• I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

  Andrew Jackson

  Law, Principles, United States

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.266, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

  Curt Schilling

  Team, Successful, Guy

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• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  Zoe Kazan

  Self, Bored, Tendencies

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Common Sense, Creative, Way

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Bully, Joy

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• I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

  Victor Salva

  Believe, Dark, Men

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• Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Thinking, People, Justice

  "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Emotional, Worry

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 16, 2012

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• Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.

  Charles Kimball

  Religious, People, Suffering

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Rich Or Poor, Long

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.135

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