Ruins Quotes

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

True fans can't ruin shows.

Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.

Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Obama wants to ruin America. Hillary [Clinton]too.

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Idleness ruins the constitution

This victory will be your I ruin.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

We live ruins amid ruins.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.