Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Humans should not think too much. Too much thinking creates short actions. Thinking far creates protection.” — Rema Thankappan Copy Share Image
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
They used to love having so much to lose. Blink your eyes just once and see everything in ruins. — Nightwish Copy Share Image
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out… — David Cone Copy Share Image
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers,… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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