What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but… — Mike Cloud Copy Share Image
“Humans should not think too much. Too much thinking creates short actions. Thinking far creates protection.” — Rema Thankappan 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
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility… — Perry Moore Copy Share Image
“Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of… — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and… — Aisha Tyler 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
Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image