Destructive Quotes

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Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he… — Steig Larsson
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid… — BrenÃ© Brown
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. — BrenÃ© Brown
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful… — Michael Crichton
Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness. — Sri Chinmoy
We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia… — Simon Pegg
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul,… — Dorothy Rowe
It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind? — Rachel Vincent
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children… — Wess Stafford
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he… — Albert Camus
The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive. — Steve Jobs
Itâ€™s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really… — Mira Grant
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances… — Frances Hardinge
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. — Sebastian Horsley
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive… — Peter Straub
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life… — Paul Tillich
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these… — Cory Doctorow
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is… — Jim Butcher

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