All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
“Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.” — Mohamed Zahy Hussain Copy Share Image
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs! — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but… — Paul P. Enns Copy Share Image
The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who… — Constance Naden Copy Share Image
I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain,… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. — Pat Conroy 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
