Best Ruins Sayings
1023 Ruins quotes by 747 unique authors
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First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always…
— Unknown Author
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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
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Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
— George Washington
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I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a…
— George S. Patton
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I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.
— Drake
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I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only…
— Pablo Neruda
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
— Bertrand Russell
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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.
— William Blake
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
— Oscar Wilde
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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
— Bertrand Russell
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
— Sri Aurobindo
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We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons…
— Charles Lindbergh
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on…
— John William Draper
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing…
— Thomas Brooks
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
— Edward Dahlberg
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
— Walter Raleigh
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
— Benjamin Rush
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I…
— Karl Marx
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which…
— Charles Dickens
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