Ruins Quotes - Page 7

Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.