Glorious Ruin Quotes

#1. But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

#2. I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Morag Joss

#3. We must not, then, aspire to please the multitude. For we do not practice what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory," says the apostle, "provoking one another, envying one another.

Clement Of Alexandria

#4. I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

Alice Cooper

#5. Be Kind. It is all that matters. Be kind through your own definition of kindness. Philosophy is merely a manner of defining kindness, it is not kindness itself. Kindness resides within you, outside of you and about you.

Ilyas Kassam

#6. When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

John Avlon

#7. What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

Kabir

#8. Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn

#9. Despair covered me like a Klingon invisibility cloak.

Lilith Darville

#10. What a glorious creature must he have been in the day of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin.

Mary Shelley

#11. Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Flann O'Brien

#13. Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. There's a sucker born every minute.

P.T. Barnum