Ruins Quotes - Page 8

Don't let people with no life ruin yours.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.