The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
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
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean — Jeff Mariotte Copy Share Image
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink… — Charles Spurgeon 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
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact -… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem. — Boman Irani 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
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK? — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image
“When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course.” — Chris Womersley Copy Share Image