The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. — Eric Felten Copy Share Image
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin. — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. — Roger Ebert 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
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's… — Shannon Leto Copy Share Image
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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