It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. — John William De Forest Copy Share Image
You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers,… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out… — David Cone Copy Share Image
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
