Ruined Quotes

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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 now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

If your wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

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 the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

That experience [in Hail, Caesar! ] ruined me for all future experiences, because the Coen brothers are the best. They're arguably the greatest of all time, if there is such a thing.

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.