Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

By nature, I'm a very self-destructive person, but all that happens is that I just get more successful every time I do it. Someday I'll come crashing down, so that's why I try to keep a good attitude about it all.

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

Each man kills the things he loves. I recognise that in myself - in relationships, even with guitars - beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

I'm a smart guy, I like to think of myself as a smart guy, but sometimes I go out there and do a lot of dumb stuff.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.