Ruin Quotes
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Rumi
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Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took
J. R. R. Tolkien
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Thomas Carlyle
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.
African Spir
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I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.
Marilyn Monroe
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
Anthony Trollope
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
Steven Soderbergh