We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists.… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. — John William De Forest Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
