Ruins Quotes
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.