Ruin Quotes
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
James Cook -
If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
Edward Joseph Young
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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 -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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 -
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude -
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.
Adolf Hitler
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
Confucius -
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron -
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin.
John Ruskin -
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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There are three way of courting ruin - women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
Georges Pompidou -
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Confucius -
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
Lao Tzu -
A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
Emily Dickinson -
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people’s fun?
Elizabeth Cunningham
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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 -
A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.
Joshua L. Liebman -
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
Arthur Alfred Lynch -
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Rumi