Destructive Quotes

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This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a… — Mary McCarthy
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render… — Rosika Schwimmer
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive. — Jonathan Raban
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… — Nong ?uc Manh
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… — Renee Olstead
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. — Karen O
But we moderns are impatient and destructive. — John Crowe Ransom
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… — Nikki Reed
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… — Alexander McCall Smith
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… — George Stephanopoulos
People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its… — Frederick Lenz
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… — Ralph Steadman
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… — Andrew Tobias
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… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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… — John Assaraf
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,… — Smiley Blanton
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams
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… — Gerhard Richter
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. — Horace
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins. — Grenville Kleiser

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