“...sola est quies, mecum ruina cuncta si video abruta; mecum omnia abeant. Trahere cum pereas, libet. (...the only calm for me -… — Seneca Copy Share Image
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside.… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis) You know better. You’ve tutored me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to see the re-making of Asia, much less India,as a revolt against the West. Asia has indeed been… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
“I think it’s from seeing the material summation of his life sitting in ruins. If we are our jobs, our houses, our… — Ryan Schow Copy Share Image
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
![“He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.” quote by Janet Evanovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/janet-evanovich-291_bed_he-ranger-peeled-my-stephanie-clothes-of_2292327.jpg)
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