Ruinous Quotes

39 Ruinous quotes by 35 unique authors

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet… — Sam Harris
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a… — Soren Kierkegaard
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within… — Saint Augustine
She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,… — Margaret Atwood
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the… — George Orwell
As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the… — Holly Black
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lust is a ruinous and otherwise gratuitous, malignant desire. It's is a hunger for that which should never be consumed; it's a thirst for poison. — Colby Tatem
Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art. — Martin Dansky
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible that main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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