Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life! — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.” — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“It is in the ruins of this darkness that we absolve the ones who love us badly.” — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All right, stop whatcha doin, cause I'm about to ruin The image and the style that you're used to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
But please, when you see an opportunity…” He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways. — Angela Merici Copy Share Image
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it. — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
“Continuously rambling thoughts disrupt the potential for positive thinking.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
