Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear.… — Moran Atias Copy Share Image
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...! — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The lights of Knoxville quaked in a faint penumbra to the west as must the ruins of many an older city seen… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. — John Webster Copy Share Image
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me… — Mindy McCready Copy Share Image
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the… — Tim Edensor Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“There were stalls nestled around the castle the way the lights were, not in rows but in odd spots, as if the… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Over-thinking always ruins you. It ruins the situation, twists things around, makes you worry and just makes everything much worse than it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think children are like pancakes: You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong,… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“To understand the people who often talk about the meaninglessness of life, walk amongst the ruins!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a smack talker. I have a speech impediment. So if I try to talk smack and I start stuttering, that… — Curtis Blaydes Copy Share Image
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else. — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
