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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
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 languagewritten words, music, lights, noises
betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud
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
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
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
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
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
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
You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.""Insha'Allah. — Leslie Cockburn
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
Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.
— Ozzy Osbourne
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
— Hermann Hesse
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
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-lenderhe 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
Let the ruins come to lifeIn 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
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
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
— Andrew Gilligan
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
The forest remembers that the last word can only bethe 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
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
