Ruins Quotes · Page 20

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

— Laozi

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

— Jon Stewart

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

— Phyllis Diller

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

— Don DeLillo

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

— James Cook

Over thinking changes nothing, it messes with your mind and literally steals your happiness.

— Anonymous

When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

— Tony Evans

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

— Ovid

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

— Sophocles

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

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the…

— Richard Burton

They used to love having so much to lose. Blink your eyes just once and see everything in ruins.

— Nightwish

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

— Will Durant

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they…

— Anselm Kiefer

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I…

— Arnold Palmer

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free…

— Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down.…

— Ted Nugent

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the…

— Hannah Arendt

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…

— Charles Dickens

We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness…

— Thomas S. Monson

Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a…

— Francois Fenelon

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property…

— Ibn Khaldun

Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying…

— Scott Westerfeld

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et…

— Julien Gracq

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and…

— Marcel Proust

Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds…

— Saint Augustine

“...most of the parade's attendees clung to a notion of what their town was, what values it embodied, what hopes it carved…

— Stephen Markley

One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He…

— Sam Houston

“You'll love him to ruins. Unless you let him go.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

— Lord Byron

Obama wants to ruin America. Hillary [Clinton]too.

— Marco Rubio

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

— James Howard Kunstler

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

— Jim Rash

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

— Garret Dillahunt

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

— Francis Quarles