Ruins Quotes

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

I’m not dead yet. It’s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero)

He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

Dating black women will ruin your life

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

Success will ruin your life.

Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Zoe let the poetry flow over her, like shadows on water, sunlight against stone: timeworn words shaped like stars, like shells, like the ruins of lost temples, soft as the breaths of mystics.

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.

He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.

These are the ruinsI mapped onto my body so I might always be lost.

What good does it do you to love?

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.