Ruins Quotations | Page 5

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

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.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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.

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Idleness ruins the constitution

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

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.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Patriotism ruins history.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

This victory will be your I ruin.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

A man is a god in ruins.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

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?

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.