Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
Ice will ruin the tea. Waters it down. You can always get ice, or carry your ice in an ice container. You… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it.… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable… — Simon Schama 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
The only people I am aware of who don't have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet?… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of strength and patience for one to invest time and effort in rebuilding ruins. But it's another chance… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them. — Graham Yost Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins. — Andrew Gilligan Copy Share Image
