Ruins Quotes - Page 16

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

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.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made of particle board, vinyl siding, and stapled-on trim. A lot of suburbia will simply become the slums of the future. Most of the rest will be salvage or ruins.

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

The dealer for a nickelLord, will sell you lots of sweet dreamsAh, but the pusher ruin your bodyLord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.