Ruins Quotes - Page 9

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?