“These are the ruins I mapped onto my body so I might always be lost.” — Traci Brimhall 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
I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a… — Francois Fenelon 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
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image