“She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life. — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.” — Martha Gelhorn Copy Share Image
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the… — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of… — Horace Copy Share Image
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
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