Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives. — Kevin R. Stone Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
They used to love having so much to lose. Blink your eyes just once and see everything in ruins. — Nightwish Copy Share Image
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and… — Henry Cabot Lodge 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
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and… — Ralph Moody Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas 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
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
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
