Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Over thinking changes nothing, it messes with your mind and literally steals your happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch. — Jon Stewart 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
