Ruin Quotes
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
Epictetus -
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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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 -
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.
Hannah Arendt -
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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 -
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.
Courtney Milan -
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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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects.
Claude C. Hopkins -
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Seth Godin
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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 -
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
Isak Dinesen -
Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.
Jean Chretien -
Consider that the devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
Angela Merici -
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
John Milton -
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.
Chris Chelios -
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli