Top 32 Quotes About Ruination
#1. Freud was of the opinion that in fear a person is responding to a specific and immediate threat to physical safety while in anxiety a person is responding to a threat that is objectless, directionless, and located somewhere far off in the future - ruination, for example, or humiliation, or decay.
Daniel Smith
#2. As I told you on Naboo, Anakin," he said finally, "we will continue to follow your career with great interest." And assure that it culminates in the ruination of the Jedi Order and the reascendancy of the Sith!
James Luceno
#3. I remember how that used to piss me off as a kid," he recalled. "Get yourself a brand-new knife and 5 minutes later it's hung up in power lines or a fucking tree. That sure is life. One minute things are moving along good, the next, the wind blows your ass to ruination.
Patricia Cornwell
#4. War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?
Lisa Simeone
#5. There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.
Neil Gaiman
#6. Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.
Harry Truman
#7. Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
Jean Baudrillard
#8. In carrying on this hipster virus I live a locust-like existence, exhausting and shedding myself in ruination from one life to the next.
Nate Powell
#9. It just doesn't seem fair, you know? I work my ass off and she gets to live off the ruination of my financial life
Kenneth Eade
#10. The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.
Ron Greenwood
#11. Just as I do, Bill was always telling pupils to relax their elbows, since the elbow is the most important joint we have in the movement of the golf swing. Bill and I were in total agreement that the attempt to keep a straight left arm means ruination for most golfers.
Harvey Penick
#12. Na razrusha'ya. E'ya razrushost." (Translation): I am not ruined. I am ruination.
Leigh Bardugo
#13. The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
Simon Winchester
#14. Horses are the ruination of everyone, your father has a craze for them but then we all do crazy things.
Edna O'Brien
#15. Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.
Peter Farb
#16. An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.
David Foreman
#17. Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#18. The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion.
Maya Angelou
#20. Under the gas lamps, mist pawed at the windows of the closed shops, which became steadily shabbier nearer home. It was such a smooth ruination that he could have been walking forward through time, watching the same buildings age five years with every step, all still as a museum
Natasha Pulley
#21. Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
Gary Johnson
#23. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
Pat Conroy
#24. [T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.
Amit Chaudhuri
#25. Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?
Evelyn Waugh
#26. The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#27. I am killed them quick, but they are killing me slow. [Jim Browner in 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box']
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But,
Pauline Reage
#30. Psalm 91
My Refuge and My Fortress
91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
LaNina King
#31. Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.
Pamela Clare
#32. I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been better if some middle-aged collector of Star Wars action figures had found me in that snowbank.
Rick Yancey
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