Ruins Quotes - Page 3

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy! Your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms! And your need is the motive for heavenly goodness.

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.