Ruin Quotes
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
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Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin.
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From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.
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You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!
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The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
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What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.
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Don’t get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
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I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.
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My daughter would soon be the age of the ghosts of our girlhood. I found it inconceivable that in a relatively small amount of time, my daughter could wear a wedding dress, as Lila had, end up brutalized in a man's bed, lock herself in the role of Signora Carracci; I found it equally inconceivable that, as had happened to me, she could lie under the heavy body of a grown man, at night, on the Maronti, smeared with dark sand, damp air, and bodily fluids, just for revenge. I remembered the thousands of odious things we had gone through and I let the solidarity regain force. What a waste it would be, I said to myself, to ruin our story by leaving too much space for ill feelings: ill feelings are inevitable, but the essential thing is to keep them in check.
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If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
