It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. — John William De Forest Copy Share Image
Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives. — Kevin R. Stone 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
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices,… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out… — David Cone Copy Share Image
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers,… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“There were stalls nestled around the castle the way the lights were, not in rows but in odd spots, as if the… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
