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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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
Tacitus
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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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.
Chris Chelios
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One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects.
Claude C. Hopkins
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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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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart
