Ruin Quotes
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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.
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
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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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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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If you Live in the Past it will Ruin Your Future.
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
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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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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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Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.
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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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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.
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There are three way of courting ruin - women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
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Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
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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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I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my life, and everybody in the room would go, "Poor Kevin." Because you could not turn your back on the idea that you saw it.
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Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
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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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A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
