All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice. — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle… — Augusten Burroughs 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
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
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
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down.… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem. — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course.” — Chris Womersley Copy Share Image
