Best Ruined Qoutes
466 Ruined quotes by 386 unique authors
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse -…
— Washington Irving
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
— Samuel Johnson
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god?…
— Stephen King
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
— Sam Kinison
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When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time,…
— Artie Lange
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
— Margaret Mead
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
— George Orwell
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast…
— Bram Stoker
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which…
— Josiah Warren
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
— Caitlin Moran
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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of…
— Margaret Atwood
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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I…
— Charles Dickens
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Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths…
— Charles Baudelaire
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...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls,…
— Jean Genet
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We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city…
— Clive Barker
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I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not…
— Charles Frazier
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system…
— Woodrow Wilson
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It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had…
— Dan Chaon
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Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not…
— Rachel Caine
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