Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.