Ruins Quotes - Page 11

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

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

Don't let the idiots ruin your day.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Mosquitos ruin the safari.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

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

Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik)