Rot & Ruin Quotes

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

Dean Koontz

#2. Well, my mother always told me that reading SF would rot my mind, ruin my morals, and lead me into hanging around with disreputable characters. And thank God, she was right!" -- Bruce Arthurs

Bruce Arthurs

#3. This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

Maxim Gorky

#4. Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying

Rita Rudner

#5. The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

Anonymous

#6. There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

Jonathan Maberry

#7. It was simpler in those days. We could say they'd died for their country. We didn't have to tell them the details; they didn't expect that.

John Le Carre

#8. That evening, the old lady sat in the best place for talking: in the kitchen, on the wooden bench beside the oven. This oven was a massive affair built of fired clay, taller than a man and large enough that all four of Pyotr Vladimirovich's children could have fit easily inside.

Katherine Arden

#9. And the giants fall one by one, to fill the cup of Rot and Ruin. A city laid waste by the feats of man, never to rise again.

Audrey Grey

#10. The stink of rot and ruin, of old dreams, broken screams, and wicked, dirty little things.

Damien Angelica Walters

#11. More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Wen Jiabao

#12. I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Steven Wright

#13. The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

Thomas Robert Malthus

#14. All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was worth it. Here, he could see her eyes and bask in her smiles-even when she wasn't smiling for him. Every day was worth the pain.

Aprilynne Pike

#15. And I wonder
if my family knows
that when we're not careful
not quick enough
things will fall to rot and ruin
so far
so badly
they can't be saved

Kelsey Sutton

#16. That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.

Charles Colson

#17. Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial.
From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths

Kirk D. Sinclair

#18. This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of rot and ruin, fire and ash.

Jonathan Maberry

#19. I loved you when you were three hundred and two pounds, and I love you now.
-Rat

Donna Cooner

#20. I grew up working for the minimum wage at Hardee's and knows first hand how important the minimum wage is. I support a state based minimum wage so every state can set their own minimum wage based on their cost of living.

Joni Ernst

#21. All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Thomas Carlyle

#22. Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain
All, all the stretch of these great green states
And make America again!

Langston Hughes