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title: "Great Ruins Quotations"
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> [Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/ruin-looks-us-in-the-face-if-we-judge-a-man-by-his-position-instead/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-liddell/circumstances-may-appear-to-wreck-our-lives-and-god-s-plans-but-god/)

[Eric Liddell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-liddell/)

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> [The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randall-jarrell/the-best-of-causes-ruins-as-quickly-as-the-worst-and-the-road-to/)

[Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randall-jarrell/)

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> [Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yahtzee-croshaw/nothing-ruins-a-good-thing-quite-like-knowing-you-share-your-opinions/)

[Yahtzee Croshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yahtzee-croshaw/)

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> [If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-kempis/if-you-seek-jesus-in-all-things-you-will-surely-find-jesus-and-if-you/)

[Thomas a Kempis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-kempis/)

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> [To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/to-the-lack-of-incentive-to-effort-which-is-the-awful-shadow-under/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

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> [But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-mclain/but-in-the-end-fighting-for-a-love-that-was-already-gone-felt-like/)

[Paula McLain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-mclain/)

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> [Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gena-showalter/strider-red-hots-dude-he-d-ruin-anything-for-a-mouthful-of-those-now/)

[Gena Showalter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gena-showalter/)

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> [Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-whitehall/society-is-so-divided-in-its-perception-of-public-school-people-most/)

[Jack Whitehall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-whitehall/)

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> [All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden/all-poets-adore-explosions-thunderstorms-tornadoes-conflagrations/)

[W. H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden/)

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> [Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-e-rees/human-societies-as-temporally-and-spatially-far-flung-as-the/)

[William E. Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-e-rees/)

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> [The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-g-white/the-hope-of-eternal-life-is-not-to-be-taken-up-upon-slight-grounds-it/)

[Ellen G. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-g-white/)

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> [You Israeli you should never become lenient if you would kill your enemies. You shall have no pity on them until you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/menachem-begin/you-israeli-you-should-never-become-lenient-if-you-would-kill-your/)

[Menachem Begin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/menachem-begin/)

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> [In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/in-public-speaking-we-must-appeal-either-to-the-prejudices-of-others/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-will-to-power-as-the-modern-age-from-hobbes-to-nietzsche/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-most-common-form-of-terrorism-in-the-u-s-a-is-that-carried-on-by/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/when-the-french-nation-gradually-came-into-existence-among-the-ruins/)

[Lytton Strachey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lytton-strachey/)

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> [Over-thinking ruins you, ruins the situation, twists things around, makes you worry & just makes everything much worse than it actually is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/over-thinking-ruins-you-ruins-the-situation-twists-things-around-3/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“In Italy ‘ruins generally form themselves’, quipped the Italian, ‘but in St Petersburg they are built from scratch’.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-matthews/in-italy-ruins-generally-form-themselves-quipped-the-italian-but-in/)

[Owen Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-matthews/)

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> [European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/european-christianity-has-allowed-itself-to-be-intimately-united-with/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrilyn-kenyon/looks-like-i-m-going-to-ruin-your-day-big-boy-i-choose-to-live-my/)

[Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrilyn-kenyon/)

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> [It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samantha-bee/it-s-weird-how-you-can-make-people-feel-comfortable-and-then-ask-them/)

[Samantha Bee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samantha-bee/)

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> [If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/if-we-are-more-affected-by-the-ruin-of-a-palace-than-by-the/)

[Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/)

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> [Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chanakya/avoid-him-who-talks-sweetly-before-you-but-tries-to-ruin-you-behind/)

[Chanakya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chanakya/)

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> [Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-leavitt/literature-can-allow-us-to-experience-the-best-side-of-humankind/)

[Caroline Leavitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-leavitt/)

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> [Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-sorel/hate-is-able-to-provoke-disorders-to-ruin-a-social-organization-to/)

[Georges Sorel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-sorel/)

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> [Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-resembles-a-tree-it-bends-under-its-own-weight-deeply-rooted-in/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hoppus/once-you-declare-your-loyalty-to-a-team-every-person-who-doesn-t/)

[Mark Hoppus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hoppus/)

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> [How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/veronica-roth/how-strange-that-something-so-simple-could-have-been-instrumental-in/)

[Veronica Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/veronica-roth/)

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> [Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/catch-a-man-a-fish-and-you-can-sell-it-to-him-teach-a-man-to-fish-and/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-white/i-won-t-do-anything-that-is-connected-with-drugs-i-ve-seen-drugs-ruin/)

[Betty White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-white/)

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> [Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-christie/higher-taxes-is-the-road-to-ruin-we-must-and-we-will-shrink-our/)

[Chris Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-christie/)

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> [A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-schaller/a-ruin-is-not-just-something-that-happened-long-ago-to-someone-else/)

[George Schaller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-schaller/)

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> [One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-pill/one-thing-that-has-gone-away-from-civil-discussion-in-america-is-this/)

[Alison Pill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-pill/)

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> [Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/intemperance-is-naturally-punished-with-diseases-rashness-with/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-jackson/ruins-provide-the-incentive-for-restoration-and-for-a-return-to/)

[J. B. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-jackson/)

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> [For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-charles-swinburne/for-winter-s-rains-and-ruins-are-over-and-in-green-under-wood-and/)

[Algernon Charles Swinburne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-charles-swinburne/)

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> [Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-georges-noverre/applause-lavished-at-a-whim-and-without-discernment-often-proves-the/)

[Jean-Georges Noverre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-georges-noverre/)

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> [I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/i-would-never-betray-a-friend-to-serve-a-cause-never-reject-a-friend/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-cloud/if-you-ruin-your-life-you-will-pay-the-price-of-rehabilitating/)

[Mike Cloud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-cloud/)

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