Ruins Quotes · Page 21

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

— John Fiske

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Without love, the world would be a heap of ruins.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

— Rebecca West

My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.

— Rosie O'Donnell

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

— Scott Westerfeld

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

— David Bowie

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the…

— William Stolzenburg

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation…

— Lech Walesa

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

— Thiruvalluvar

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,…

— Rigoberta Menchu

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

— John Milton

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want…

— Katy Perry

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party…

— Benito Mussolini

Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink…

— Charles Spurgeon

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see…

— Augustus Hare

It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted…

— Edward Gibbon

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know…

— Kendrick Lamar

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant…

— Charles Darwin

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have…

— Neville Chamberlain

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,…

— Jonathan Mayhew

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out…

— Brigham Young

I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there…

— Portia de Rossi

There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin…

— Henry Mitchell

Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins.…

— Alphonsus Liguori

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

— Thomas de Quincey

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

— Anonymous

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

— Dennis Prager

I thought 'RV' stood for 'Recreational Vehicle.' No! It stands for 'Ruins Vacations.'

— Bill Engvall

A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

— Doug Stanhope