Ruin Quotes
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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.
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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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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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects.
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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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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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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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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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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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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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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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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.
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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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Consider that the devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
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I adhere to the law of chastity because I don’t believe in pushing women. That’s what it means to be a man. I don’t hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don’t indulge in either. We don’t need to.
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it.
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
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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.
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Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
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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.
