Best Ruins Quotes
1023 Ruins quotes by 747 unique authors
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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
— Chris Christie
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There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
— Trey Anastasio
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy…
— Hannah Arendt
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
— Unknown Author
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Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to…
— Amy Alcott
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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
— Beverly Donofrio
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The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its…
— William Wells Brown
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I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should…
— Anita Loos
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.
— Sun Tzu
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
— Tadao Ando
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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