Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but… — Mike Cloud Copy Share Image
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Humans should not think too much. Too much thinking creates short actions. Thinking far creates protection.” — Rema Thankappan Copy Share Image
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think friendships are a lot more valuable than one job. If you're going to let it ruin that, then that's stupid. — Gigi Hadid Copy Share Image
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down.… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image