Ruins Quotes
Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.
Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
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 furrow.
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
