[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. — Brian Ruckley Copy Share Image
in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. — Holly Valance Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing. — Robert Harbison Copy Share Image
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I… — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes… — Bernard Lazare 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
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact -… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK? — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image