If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money, — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny. — Keshia Chante Copy Share Image
Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser… — John Denham Copy Share Image
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide. — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. — Euripides Copy Share Image
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings,… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
“We’ll start on the ruins when you come back.” “Looks like a big job.” “Those are the most important.” — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously. — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
A single girlfriend can play an important role in success of your career but a bunch of girlfriends can seriously ruins your… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just… — Kasey Kahne Copy Share Image
