“These are the ruins I mapped onto my body so I might always be lost.” — Traci Brimhall Copy Share Image
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation. — Sidney Howard Copy Share Image
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the… — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
“Shame on those who remain unmoved, whose pace fails to quicken, on entering one of these old habitations, a manor-house falling to… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
“I think it’s from seeing the material summation of his life sitting in ruins. If we are our jobs, our houses, our… — Ryan Schow Copy Share Image
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part… — John Graves Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term… — Sze Tsung Leong Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians. — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
