Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen 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
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Eventually, while researching, you'll learn something you didn't want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The… — Andy Weir 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
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
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,… — Thomas Brooks 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
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
The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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