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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 point of cool is to erase your ability to say no. Saying yes buys you cool cachet, but it always ruins your life later.
— Greg Gutfeld
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.
— Elliott Abrams
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You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.
— Mary Shelley
The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.
— Alfred Marshall
a squatter in the ruins of empire,
— M.R. Carey
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
— Che Guevara
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
You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.
— Alice Hoffman
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
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
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
— Edward Dahlberg
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.
— John William De Forest
( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!
— Comte De Lautreamont
Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.
— Kid Cudi
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
— Ambrose Bierce
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
— Bryant McGill
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 only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
— George Washington
We all just do the best we can with what we've go. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it ruins everything
— C.J. Redwine
Alas, poor gentleman,He look'd not like the ruins of his youth
But like the ruins of those ruins. — John Ford
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
— James A. Baldwin
One little step of a Big Mistake,ruins only your life
and the love of someone else.
September 24, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
Amen — Petra Hermans
Politics ruins the character
— Otto Von Bismarck
You really shouldn't lean against a wall and try to look tough unless you can cross your arms. Ruins the effect.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It's a selfish thing to do. Don't confess.
— Jake Adelstein
A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
— Emily Dickinson
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
— H.G.Wells
Looking around, do you see ruins? That was to be expected. He who lives in the world of words does not get along with things.
— Sergei Dovlatov
In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.
— Emil Cioran
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.
— Frederic G. Kenyon
And I cried ... for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
— Sonia Sanchez
The deeper we go with God, the more it ruins us.
— Pat Schatzline
He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.
— Confucius
Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
— David Allen
Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R's,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.
— Charles Spurgeon
You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.""Insha'Allah. — Leslie Cockburn
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
— Andrew Gilligan
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
— Fanny Burney
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle. — Pablo Neruda
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
— Dave Barry
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
— George Santayana
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
Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Psalm 74:3
— Beth Moore
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
— Susanna Rowson
Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.
— Veronica Webb
It's like ... time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
— Dan Wells
The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.
— Mohsin Hamid
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
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
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
Ruins are the cathedrals of Time.
— Marty Rubin
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
— St. Jerome
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
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
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
— Austin Carlile
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
— James Russell Lowell
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
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
— John Dryden
He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
— Benjamin Franklin