Ruins Quotes · Page 16

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

— Elizabeth Chandler

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

— Douglas Kennedy

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

— Marilyn Manson

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

— Park Geun-hye

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

— Saul Bellow

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

— P. J. O'Rourke

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

— Amelia Barr

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the…

— Rumi

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is…

— Lord Hailsham

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the…

— Alain de Botton

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of…

— Thiruvalluvar

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny…

— Rachel Dratch

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

— Joan Baez

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still…

— Eric Liddell

But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams.…

— Cassandra Clare

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind…

— Aeschylus

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career…

— Anthony Trollope

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property…

— Ibn Khaldun

Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a…

— Francois Fenelon

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…

— Charles Dickens

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or…

— Honore de Balzac

Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to…

— Richard Ebeling

I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families,…

— Brian Molko

We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing…

— Max Anders

There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,…

— David James Duncan

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a…

— Charlotte Bronte

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow…

— Demosthenes

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

— Oscar Wilde

You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

— Gregory Beale

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

— Saadi

“These are the ruins I mapped onto my body so I might always be lost.”

— Traci Brimhall

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

— Oscar Wilde

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

— Winston Churchill

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

— John Fowles