Quotes About Beautiful Ruins

#1. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

Richard Russo

#2. A strange, beautiful new world awaits, Leonard.
We've found an oasis in their ruins. We really have.
You want to see it, so just hold on, okay?

Matthew Quick

#3. Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.

Mario Puzo

#4. A lady might feel fear, but she must not give in to it, or so her governess had taught her.

Theodora Goss

#5. Nothing less important in the eyes of God, Annabelle, than pretty.

Lauren Wolk

#6. Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

David Maraniss

#7. There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.

Robert Aickman

#8. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Emily Giffin

#10. Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the

H.G.Wells

#11. Parents just don't understand.

Will Smith

#12. Some would never think of talking to friends the way they do to their own children. We should speak with the same words of kindness to our children, as we would when speaking to our best friends.

Randall Wright

#13. To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

Barbara Cartland

#14. Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

J.B. MacKinnon

#15. My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Georg Cantor

#16. So damn beautiful. You look like a goddess. Like a warrior. Like you could slay me and you do. Just looking at you ruins me. I love to look at you. I could look at you lying spread like this forever. Open to me, wet and flushed - forever and never grow tired.

Skye Warren

#17. Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

William Ames

#19. There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Samuel Johnson

#20. But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble.

Ben Okri

#21. The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

Mohsin Hamid

#22. In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.

David Grubbs

#23. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

James Baldwin

#24. Maybe he would ruin her like the waves crashes the shore, but nothing was more beautiful for her than wanting to be wrecked into his demise. In his ruins she breathed to exist.

Prachi Prangya Agasti

#25. Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

Barack Obama

#26. Every blessing, just like a coin, has two sides

Sunday Adelaja

#27. I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a Romantic facination with structural decay; wealthy gentry had custom-built ruins erected on their estates, their own little Country Churchyards to elegize in

Paul Collins

#28. Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

Horace Walpole

#30. What business does memory have with time?

Jess Walter

#31. We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

Misty May-Treanor

#32. Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Dean Koontz