Ruin Quotes
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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There are three way of courting ruin - women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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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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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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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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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
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Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
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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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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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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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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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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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That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching 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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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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Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
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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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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
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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.
