For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course.” — Chris Womersley Copy Share Image
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. — Ovid Copy Share Image
When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and… — Ralph Moody Copy Share Image
But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the… — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK? — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation. — Sidney Howard Copy Share Image
