Ruins Quotes

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

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.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.