Ruin Quotes
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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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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 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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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
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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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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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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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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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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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Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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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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From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.
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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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If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
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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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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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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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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 you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
