Ruined Lives Quotes

#1. ... as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement.

Alan Furst

#2. Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

Pete Yorn

#3. These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Mona Simpson

#4. I've never considered myself a femme fatale as I've never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

Scarlett Johansson

#5. You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

James Anthony Froude

#7. I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.

Brandi Carlile

#8. I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.

Kevin Myers

#9. Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

C.J. Mahaney

#10. People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. And there are words, significant words, you do not want to say, words that account for busted-up lives, words that try to fix something ruined that shouldn't be ruined and no one wanted ruined, and that words can't fix anyway. Telling

Richard Ford

#12. The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

#13. It's ugly in there, decayed by lies and shame, endlessly bleeding for all the lives I've ruined. You're the eighth reason I don't deserve affection." Eight slaves worth of guilt.

Pepper Winters

#14. CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

Quentin Tarantino

#15. Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

Jonathan Pryce

#17. Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely - perhaps never - furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.

Timothy Leary

#19. Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

James Altucher

#20. Who was it who said childhood was a thing that ruined everyone's life? Why was it, I wondered, that the human species spent their entire lives trying to figure themselves out?

Wendy Jean

#21. 'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Scott Adsit

#22. Liz looked back and counted the bodies, all those lives she had ruined simply by existing. So she chose to stop existing.

Amy Zhang

#23. It was hoped we might have two lives - the way cats are said to have nine. This life we ruined, and another, for after.

Nova Ren Suma

#24. We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.

Sonny Barger

#25. Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

Mitch Albom

#26. Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

Kary Mullis

#27. I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

Brian May

#28. Innocent people's lives were ruined, where there are necessarily lots of idiots.

Mehmet Kececi

#29. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.

Patrick McGrath

#30. Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!

Arthur Conan Doyle

#31. Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.

Thomas Hardy

#32. Someone's moved these crates away from the wall. Go up to the house, will you, and see if you can find a flashlight? I want a better look."
"Here." She pulled out the small flashlight she'd stuck in her pocket. "Do you have any idea how annoying that is?"
"I'll try not to do it again.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#33. When your world falls apart and everything's ruined, you lose part of yourself. Not all, inconveniently. One half, the best half, dies. The other half lives.

Sophie Hannah

#34. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

Mike Yaconelli