Ruins famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
-- Adam Rickitt -
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
-- Aeschylus -
In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.
-- Albert Mohler -
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
-- Alfred Jarry -
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
-- Amelia Barr -
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
-- Andrew Gilligan -
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
-- Angela Carter -
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
-- Ann Brashares -
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
-- Anton Chekhov -
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
-- Arsene Houssaye -
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
-- Ben Jonson -
Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
-- Benvenuto Cellini -
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
-- Berenice Abbott -
I detest war; it ruins conversation
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
-- Beverly Sills -
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
-- Bill Nighy -
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you
-- Bob Dylan -
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
-- Boman Irani -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin
-- Bruno Freschi -
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
-- Chanakya -
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.
-- Charles Simmons -
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara
-- Charlotte Tilbury -
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
-- Che Guevara -
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
-- Christopher Lasch -
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.
-- Christopher McDougall -
She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
-- Coleman Barks -
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
-- Dan Wells -
I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.
-- Daniel Handler -
I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
-- Darrell Royal -
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.
-- David Pogue -
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
-- Dennis Lehane -
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
-- Derek Walcott -
Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
-- Dick Costolo -
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.
-- Dick Francis -
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
-- Djuna Barnes -
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
-- Don Imus -
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
-- Dorothy Dunnett -
Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.
-- Dorothy Wordsworth -
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
-- Edith Wharton -
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
-- Eleanor Farjeon -
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
-- Ellen G. White -
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
-- Ellen Gilchrist -
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
-- Ellen Ullman -
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.
-- Eric Liddell -
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
-- Fanny Burney -
I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
-- Garret Dillahunt -
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
-- Garrett Hardin -
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
-- George Crabbe -
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
-- George Santayana -
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
-- George Washington -
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.
-- Gouverneur Morris -
When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.
-- Greg Kinnear -
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
-- H. G. Wells -
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
-- Hart Crane -
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.
-- Hartley Coleridge -
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
-- Haven Kimmel -
This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
-- Helena Christensen
