Ruin Quotes
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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When I told (my wife) Pat (that I was coming back), she said you're going to ruin your good name. After the first year, we're halfway there.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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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?
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One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects.
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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.
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
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Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it - that's how liars are.
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He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
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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.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
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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.
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Consider that the devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
