Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility… — Perry Moore Copy Share Image
“Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, and… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair.… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean — Jeff Mariotte Copy Share Image
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. — Holly Valance Copy Share Image
in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing. — Robert Harbison Copy Share Image
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
