You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman. — Rose Henniker Heaton Copy Share Image
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. — Winston Churchill 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
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“No matter how angry she was at him, she'd never deprive him of the change to see one of the ruins he'd… — Kass Morgan Copy Share Image
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise… — John Gay Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have… — Neville Chamberlain 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
It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard Copy Share Image
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams 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
Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep. — Travis Hafner Copy Share Image
You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image