Ruins Quotes - Page 12

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

I can't die. It would ruin my image.

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.