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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are… — Henry Charles Carey
Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for… — Bob Probert
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for… — Brian Welch
There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.' — Tamara Ecclestone
Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could. — Mona Simpson
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through… — Nicolaus Copernicus
All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I… — Christine Keeler
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,… — John Donne
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a… — Keith Olbermann
The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild… — Timothy Egan
Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah… — Ted Rall
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the… — Angelina Jolie
Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise — Shiv Khera
One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement… — S. Bear Bergman
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich. — Publilius Syrus
When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even… — Simon Van Booy
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who… — Charlie LeDuff
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean. — Aristotle
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined… — Rumi
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest. — FranÃ§ois Lelord
Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind. — Albert Fish
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend… — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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