From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's… — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Look past the garbage, over the trains, Under the ruins, through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me...where I… — Grandmaster Caz Copy Share Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one… — Don DeLillo 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
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
