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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

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. — Che Guevara

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. — Joseph Joubert

These are the ruins
I mapped onto my body so I might always be lost. — Traci Brimhall

Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life — Sunday Adelaja

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. — Karl Lehenbauer

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. — Thomas De Quincey

What ruins the Humans fellows?

Anger
Anxiety
Boredoom
Crying
Shouting — Deyth Banger

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

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. — Oscar Wilde

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

Ruins can be rebuilt. — George R R Martin

( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings! — Comte De Lautreamont

We live ruins amid ruins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it. — Louise Erdrich

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

We moralize among ruins. — Benjamin Disraeli

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. — Edward McKendree Bounds

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves. — Marilyn Manson

Trample not on the ruins of a man. — Charles Lamb

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

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. — Seth Godin

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

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn. — Alicia Keys

to be among the ruins was to have your time-sense unsettled. — V.S. Naipaul

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men. — Sophocles

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

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

Z "Bad company ruins good morals." [4] — Anonymous

He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. — Dean Koontz

Her choice ruins the lives of the people she cares most about. Because she picked propriety over passion. Head over heart. — Kody Keplinger

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins — Ellen Ullman

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — Edward Bond

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. — Richard Burton

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins. — Eliza Griswold

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

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

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

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

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time. — Mark Twain

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

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

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. — William Blake

Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day. — Veronica Webb

You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration. — Gregory Beale

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

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

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. — Kay Boyle

You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins — Norman Mailer

That pretty much sums up our relationship: I have it. He wants it. He gets it. He ruins it. — Trish Doller

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. — Winston Churchill

Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you. — J.L. Sheppard

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror. — Paul Verhaeghe

Stupid entropy ruins everything. — Jennifer Ouellette

Ruins are the cathedrals of Time. — Marty Rubin

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

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

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

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. — Mary Ann Shaffer

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. — Christopher Lasch

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become. — Tucker Max

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? — Jean De La Fontaine

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful. — Mohsin Hamid

Man is a god in ruins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For wherever mystery serves as a foundation, only ruins may be erected. — Thomas Ligotti

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

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

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin. — James Cook

Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara — Charlotte Tilbury

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

What good does it do you to love? — Trisha Leigh

Bad company ruins good morals. — Paul The Apostle

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure. — Marlon Brando

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau

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. — Rumi

We are living even now among punishments and ruins. — Wendell Berry