Ruin Quotes

1011 Ruin quotes by 721 unique authors

I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace… — Cordell Hull
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going… — Henry Ward Beecher
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before… — Sun Tzu
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These… — Sun Tzu
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory… — Sun Tzu
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. — Sun Tzu
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be… — Alphonsus Liguori
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. — Unknown Author
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always… — Unknown Author
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington
I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me. — Drake
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. — Bertrand Russell
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic. — W. S. Gilbert
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. — Oscar Wilde
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and… — Neville Chamberlain
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons… — Charles Lindbergh
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing… — Thomas Brooks

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