“religious house called Campsie, the ruins of which still occupy a striking situation on the Tay. It” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. — George Washington Copy Share Image
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me. — Pittacus Lore 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
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
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