Ruined Quotes
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
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I never set my sights low. I’ve always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves.
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
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I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
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I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.
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I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
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I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.
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My first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
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Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.
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Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.
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The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
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Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.
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The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
