Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“I'd plotted, as a child, to give my life to the Lord. In college, I'd lost this faith. Isolated, grief-wild, I'd picked… — R. O. Kwon Copy Share Image
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
