Ruins Quotes

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

You can still function as a living ruin.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

The dealer for a nickelLord, will sell you lots of sweet dreamsAh, but the pusher ruin your bodyLord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.