Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth,… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags,… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
“don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not.… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers,… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home… — Ruth Wisse Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that… — Andreas Vesalius Copy Share Image
Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever. — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
Over-thinking causes problems that weren't even there to begin with. We all need to stop thinking so much, just go day by… — Lisette Alfaro Copy Share Image
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Humans have a tendency to overcomplicate simple things because we overthink them. But if you take a step back and remember your… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image