Ruin Quotes
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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.
Seth Godin
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If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
Edward Joseph Young
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
James Cook
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Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
Boman Irani
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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.
Kevin Costner
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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
Benvenuto Cellini
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Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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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?
Elena Ferrante
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Rumi
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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.
Francis Bacon
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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!
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I don't think it's possible to ruin a relationship because of anything you do. I think it's about whether or not you're supposed to be together.
Evan Ross
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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.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
Jules Michelet
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.
Isabelle Eberhardt