Quotes About Tearing People Down

#1. There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

Michael Shanks

#2. He wouldn't have been able to purchase this house if he wasn't so talented at tearing people down.

D.R. Hedge

#3. A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

Jules Henry

#4. It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

Mary Karr

#5. I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

Mindy Kaling

#6. We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Joel Osteen

#7. Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

Andrew Mason

#8. It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.

Anthony Powell

#9. Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

#10. I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Mary McCarthy

#11. You can paint it white and braid its mane, but at the end of the day, you can't turn an ass into a unicorn, no matter how much glitter and flowers you sprinkle on it.

Nicole Williams

#12. A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them back from a subterfuge comma. Literally tearing the veil of blackness down and showing them the luminescence of light.

Laura Kreitzer

#13. Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down

Tasha Turner

#14. Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.

Betty White

#15. Men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules, wherein they are deceived because they afterward find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. From the bow of the canoe she asked, "Do you know a rain dance?"
"First I need a virgin.

Carl Hiaasen

#17. There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Iyanla Vanzant

#18. ...we tear down the places where birds live, and put up places where people live, or places where people work to earn the money to pay for the places they live. We don't ask the birds for permission, nor do they complain about it. To a bird there is no tearing down or putting up.

John Porcellino

#19. Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

Paul Feig

#20. People are used to being stimulated. People are drunk on entertainment and when you're going out and seeing movies where 200 people are machine gunned down and vampires are tearing people's throats out, and I'm not saying that is bad or it should be censored, but people are drunk on stimuli.

Alex Jones

#21. People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

Pam Houston

#22. So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

Prince Philip

#23. My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

Carson Kressley

#24. I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

Lars Von Trier

#25. If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it.

Dan Pearce

#26. Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Bill Walton

#27. Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration ... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Francis Bacon