Ruins Quotes - Page 5

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Patriotism ruins history.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

You can't let the past ruin your future.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.