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Ruin Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
- Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.…
- Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to…
- But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I…
- I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.
- Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
- Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of…
- Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
- Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which…
- Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
- Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin…
- Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on…
More Ruin Quotes
- Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac
- I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or… — Berenice Abbott
- What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that… — Ambrose Bierce
- Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. — Josh Billings
- The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. — Josh Billings
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter… — Aeschylus
- You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. — Aeschylus
- Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. — Aesop
- Bad attitudes will ruin your team. — Terry Bradshaw
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things… — Warren Buffett