Ruin Quotes
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
Mahatma Gandhi
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
Charles Dickens
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Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.
Alistair Maclean
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The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.
Hannah Arendt
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Sophocles
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart
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He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
George Bernard Shaw
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Oscar Wilde