Ruins Quotes - Page 8
Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.19, Macmillan
Broadcast on Radio Bremen, August 2, 1940.
Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
Susanna Rowson (1991). “Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple”, p.44, Penguin
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.
Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.50, World Classic
David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.329
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.285, Cosimo, Inc.
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.841, GENERAL PRESS
Marco Casagrande (2012). “Biourban Acupuncture. Treasure Hill of Taipei to Artena”, p.9, International Society of Biourbanism
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster
Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.150, Vintage Canada
1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.
Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.
1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.
"History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.