Ruins Quotes

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

Mosquitos ruin the safari.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

Don't let the idiots ruin your day.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.

Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.

I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.