I've gained so much confidence as a woman from figuring out that I don't want to be destructive. I don't want to stomp through the world and be number one. I just want to tread really lightly and not destroy anything. Hopefully, I can try to mend some things. That's my goal.
Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic needinstinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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 victory indistinguishable from defeat.
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.
The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.