There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“No matter how angry she was at him, she'd never deprive him of the change to see one of the ruins he'd… — Kass Morgan Copy Share Image
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's… — John Green Copy Share Image
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
If i would ever fall in love…I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine…but… — Naoko Takeuchi Copy Share Image
And tar is washing up onto the beaches - big globs of tar. And people are saying, 'Is that going to ruin… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use… — Ted Rall 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
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
Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair.… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins. — Bruce Springsteen 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
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back… — Toni Morrison 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
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
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