Top 100 Ruin Quotes
#1. Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
Will Rogers
#2. It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome ... was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.
George Q. Cannon
#3. The dealer for a nickelLord, will sell you lots of sweet dreamsAh, but the pusher ruin your bodyLord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.
Hoyt Axton
#4. He was asked, then, who was this Winged Grief? And Gallan said, 'There is but one left who would dare command me. One who would not weep and yet had taken into his soul a people's sorrow, a realm's sorrow. His name was Silchas Ruin.
Steven Erikson
#5. Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin.
Steven Erikson
#6. Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
Susan Sontag
#7. Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on.
Vikrmn
#8. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin your best laid plans.
Tina Fey
#9. Let it be a settled principle ... that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
J.C. Ryle
#10. To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori
#11. When people devote themselves to something
they always ruin it on the verge of success.
Finish with the same care you took in beginning
and you'll avoid ruining things.
Lao-Tzu
#12. Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
George Washington
#13. I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.
Kristen Stewart
#14. That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin
John Ruskin
#15. Just ask me to show you, and I will. I may be a virgin, a first time lover, but every second I can't do what burns in me to do, is an eternal fucking torment. ~Ruin
Lucian Bane
#16. Never underestimate how easy it is to ruin someone's life.
Brette O'Connell
#17. Respecting this planet we live on is a must. I heard an elder say, "When we begin to see what we call resources as relatives a healing can come." If we ruin this planet we live on where will we go?
Arla Williams
#18. My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls ... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.
George R R Martin
#19. But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches,
Amitav Ghosh
#20. I'm sorry I ruined your homecoming."
He kissed me once more and then shook his head. "The only thing that could ruin this is not being with you.
Markelle Grabo
#21. Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose. George
Philippa Gregory
#22. Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.
Nathalia Crane
#23. Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.
Hannah More
#24. Pan is right," he thought. "Death can ruin a man's life even though he go on breathing.
Tom Robbins
#25. While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.
Chris Avellone
#26. If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
Carl Sagan
#27. You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.
Gregory Beale
#28. Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Alexander Pope
#30. Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?
Leila Sales
#31. I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Davy Crockett
#32. Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#33. The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Jonathan Swift
#34. That's probably the most sincere thing that I've ever heard come out of your mouth."
Logan lowered his eyes to Tate's hand. "Now, that's not true. I was very sincere this morning when I told you that I loved sucking your - "
"Don't ruin it," Tate interrupted.
Ella Frank
#35. If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
#36. On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free - free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But
Brian W. Aldiss
#37. That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
William Shakespeare
#39. The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings
#40. This was her home, her ruin, her scattered dream.
Anonymous
#41. The most important possession of a country is its population. If this is maintained in health and vigour everything else will follow; if this is allowed to decline nothing, not even great riches, can save the country from eventual ruin.
Albert Howard
#42. Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
George Eliot
#43. The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.
Alfred Marshall
#44. There is too much singing and dancing, such lightness as loosens the restraints of virtue,' she complained, her white curls quivering. 'When I was young we held to the courtly ways, but nowadays the world is running all to ruin.
Lisa Klein
#45. There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
William III Of England
#46. Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.
Charles Spurgeon
#47. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
#48. Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.
Steven Erikson
#49. Do not let your past insecurities ruin your future victories.
Jeffrey Fry
#50. There's a hurried intensity in the strokes
you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush. It's as if he knew there wasn't much time left. And yet, there's a serenity in his face, a sense of something that's survived its own ruin.
Nicole Krauss
#51. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore.
George Gordon Byron
#52. She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
Billy Joel
#53. The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.
Andreas Vesalius
#54. Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
J.B. MacKinnon
#55. To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?
Jeffrey Gitomer
#57. Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.
Michel De Montaigne
#58. ....we have discovered a great social secret in Canada. We have contrived to solve problems which would ruin other countries merely by ignoring their existence.
Hugh MacLennan
#59. As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
William Cowper
#60. i wanted to destroy you.
you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me.
AVA.
#62. Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.
Russell Kirk
#63. 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.
Socrates
#64. Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
Dale Carnegie
#65. Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Amy Alcott
#66. we're not allowed to ruin the now by beating ourselves up over the then." "Very
Douglas E. Richards
#67. I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.
Perry Moore
#68. Don't let people's stereotypes or stigmas or words - don't let that put you in a box. Don't let that ruin your day.
Lil B
#69. I don't want to ruin anyone's life by being in it.
That was never my intention.
Ryke
Krista Ritchie
#70. By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#71. Why do I let you do this to me?" Adam panted against his face, damp and warm, and heartbeat racing in his chest. "How do you ruin me like this?
Santino Hassell
#72. We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.
James Inhofe
#73. My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.
Rosie O'Donnell
#74. I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.
Charlie Munger
#75. Ruin, comes when the trader, whose heart is lifted up by wealth, becomes ruler
Will Durant
#76. Words are like Spices
Some are mellow
Some are sweet
Some are spicy
And some are bitter
Don't let the bitter ones ruin your palate for the wonderful tastes
in life that are coming your way!
Leeza Donatella
#77. Twitter ... can ruin your life.
Rita Ora
#78. I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Willa Cather
#79. A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.
Norbert Wiener
#80. Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
P.D. James
#81. My wealth of merit gathered in, With reverence but without conceptual target, When shall I reveal this truth of emptiness To those who go to ruin through belief in real existence?
Santideva
#83. Does she want me to cum? he thought. This was the frustrating part about vanilla sex. He never got to decide anything, and if he asked any question he would "ruin the moment." So it was all up in the air, never knowing exactly what the fuck was going on.
Joshua Edward Smith
#84. The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#86. Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.
Charles Dickens
#87. I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.
Sandy Hume
#88. But the rest of Jace's mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams. It was one thing to push it to this point. It is another to let go forever. Because he knows Clary, and if she goes now, she will not ever come back.
Cassandra Clare
#89. That makes two weeks. Two weeks to change the world, and fourteen days to ruin it.
Markus Zusak
#90. North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
Barbara Demick
#91. Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?
Doug Wead
#92. It is all in vain; you cannot give money to some members of the community but by taking it from others. If you desire to ruin the tax-payer, you may do so. But at least do not banter him by saying: In order to compensate your losses, I take from you again as much as I have taken from you already.
Frederic Bastiat
#94. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#95. I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
Bill Murray
#96. It takes a long time time to earn a reputation and hardly a sec to ruin it. That's the way life is all about.
Jitendra Anne
#97. People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.
Chelsea Peretti
#98. Pfft." Dad turned to her. "What do you know about picking
husbands? Last time you tried that, you got stuck with me."
She smiled and hit his arm.
"You two are so gross, you ruin everything." I spun and headed
toward the door.
Kiera Cass
#99. Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
Ihara Saikaku
#100. Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything?
A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that.
Daniel Handler
