Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I thought 'RV' stood for 'Recreational Vehicle.' No! It stands for 'Ruins Vacations.' — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin. — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.” — Bethany Brookbank Copy Share Image
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the… — William III of England 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
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. — Barack Obama 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
The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet?… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them… — Saint Timothy Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact -… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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