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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. — H.G.Wells

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time. — Ian Botham

Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position. — Theodore Roosevelt

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second. — Taylor Swift

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

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart. — Victor Hugo

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin. — John Owen

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms. — Edvard Grieg

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. — Dorothy Wordsworth

Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

It is a truth that we should not settle for less, but in the 21st century it is the constant pursuit for more that ruins many. — Hope D. Blackwell

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. — Arsene Houssaye

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city. — Rachel L. Schade

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs. — Julius Evola

A man is a god in ruins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. — Rigoberta Menchu

And in your ruins, I breathe to exist. — Prachi Prangya Agasti

Right." A soft, choked laugh. "Kind of ruins the dramatic effect if I'm storming off in the wrong direction, doesn't it? — Kelley Armstrong

How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day. — Kiera Cass

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce

He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain. — Diana Palmer

The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. — Daphne Du Maurier

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana

People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future. — William Manchester

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

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins. — Sinead O'Connor

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. — Lord Byron

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. — Friedrich Schiller

S'why I looove America: City Center's in ruins, there's a fifties creature on the loose, and a man can still get drunk. — Neil Gaiman

It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins. — Courtney Milan

Don't let people's stereotypes or stigmas or words - don't let that put you in a box. Don't let that ruin your day. — Lil B

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. — Arsene Houssaye

For in those times when our hearts are in the darkest shadows, the slightest rays of hope can gleam like eternal sunshine — A.W.Chrystalis

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

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. — Thomas A Kempis

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

The owl loves its nest in the ruins, The Huma revels in making kings, The falcon will not leave the King's hand, And the wagtail pleads weakness.2 — Rory Stewart

You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins."
"Insha'Allah. — Leslie Cockburn

I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me. — Drake

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

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! — Louis Simpson

And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love. — N.R. Walker

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

For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins. — Victor Hugo

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. — Hermann Hesse

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. — Tacitus

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless. — Ray Bradbury

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin. — Arthur Alfred Lynch

The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west. "It — Lev Grossman

These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret. — Jess Walter

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. — William Shakespeare

Anxiety ruins everything, if you don't be in such position you will better as a human kind. — Deyth Banger

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

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. — Joseph Addison

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins. — Bruce Springsteen

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! — William Wilberforce

Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Psalm 74:3 — Beth Moore

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's like ... time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. — Dan Wells

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. — Adam Smith

Let the ruins come to life
In the beauty of Your name
Rising up from the ashes
God forever You reign — Hillsong

Look past the garbage, over the trains,
Under the ruins, through the remains,
Around the crime and pollution,
And tell me ... where I fit in? — Grandmaster Caz

Man is a god in ruins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices. — Robert Aickman

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. — Lev Grossman

Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks? — Kate Atkinson

And when all else is gone, Art remains. — Kate Atkinson

A man is a god in ruins.When men are innocent,life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them. — John Clellon Holmes

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. — Joan Baez

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity. — William Blake

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin. — Coleman Barks

Maybe here in the ruins of the old world, they could start something new. — Kass Morgan

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. — Zac Farro

Looking for a great teacher who can tell you what will happen in the future? Ask the ancient ruins what will happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description. — Christopher Titus

A single girlfriend can play an important role in success of your career but a bunch of girlfriends can seriously ruins your successful life. — Wiz Khalifa

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

Still, I love you. In all my human ruins, in all my shining inadequacy, I love you. — Conny Cernik

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

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. — Juvenal

Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice. — Morrissey

The forest remembers that the last word can only be
the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm — Aime Cesaire

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.
And this one is Teddy's. — Kate Atkinson

Changes are good for us, but some changes ruins our life as well, so never change for others just change for self. — Debolina

When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course. — Chris Womersley

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior. — Thom Yorke

The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. They would have to tie him down to keep him from going to Ember's Tomb. — Lev Grossman

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. — William Shatner

He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on vanity. — Thomas Pynchon

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins. — Meg Rosoff