We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
All right, stop whatcha doin, cause I'm about to ruin The image and the style that you're used to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
“religious house called Campsie, the ruins of which still occupy a striking situation on the Tay. It” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
