Ruins Quotes

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Bad company ruins good morals.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

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

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

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

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.