Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. — Livy Copy Share Image
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall… — Edward Abbey 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
ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to… — Nicole Krauss 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
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers,… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out… — David Cone Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens 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
She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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