Ruins Quote by John Fowles Download Open image “How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ruins Self
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of strength and patience for one to invest time and effort in rebuilding ruins. But it's another chance for rebirth. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
“A new building built on old foundation can't last. Maybe for a while; but when the earthquakes come and the floods flow in, it will wash out. A new building built on a new foundation, though, will be able to endure the ground shaking and the waves that come in. To build a new generation of people, a new foundation… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously.… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like… — Shawn Smucker Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
I just need to find the best version of myself. Find improvements to what I've already got, rather than trying to remodel my game. — Joe Root Copy Share Image
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
