Destructive Quotes - page 14

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play. (Chris O'Dowd)
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.' View quote
Curt Schilling
Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot. View quote
Cate Tiernan
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion. View quote
Eugene Jarecki
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. View quote
Federica Montseny
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band. View quote
James Young
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality. View quote
Jeffrey Tucker
There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me. View quote
Joey Lauren Adams
The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology. View quote
John Gresham Machen
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. View quote
Judd Apatow
When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations. (Leslie Cockburn)
I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting. View quote
Lili Taylor
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert. View quote
Luke Rhinehart
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed. View quote
Cynthia Dill
The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. View quote
Greg Wise
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State. View quote
Henry A. Wise
Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation. View quote
James Marsh
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. View quote
John O'Toole
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. View quote
John White Geary
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry. (Michael McCaul)
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. View quote
Nong Duc Manh
In this way, some film schools can be destructive. View quote
Richard King
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts. View quote
Rick Ross
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. View quote
Rob Bell