Ruined Things Quotes

#1. Hemingway should have stayed in the Midwest. He ruined things for the rest of us, telling all those lies. The lie about courage, the lie about every red-blooded male needing to kill a bull or climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Francine Prose

#2. I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things

Drake

#3. Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!

Tad Williams

#4. My outlook has changed, Antonia. Last year this time, I'd bemoaned the ruined hay." He shrugged. "Now I know what real loss is. So I'm seeing things differently.

Debra Holland

#5. The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.

John Steinbeck

#6. I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

Eugene Mirman

#7. A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

Caitlin Moran

#8. I realized that her life
her feelings for things
had been ruined
along the way
and that I was no more than a
temporary
companion

Charles Bukowski

#9. Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

John Green

#10. A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It has never solved any problems, but it has done no harm, and nothing has ever ruined it for me. Swimming.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.

Johnny Thunders

#12. With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. Things get ruined the moment you say, 'What will become of me? It means that you have no regard for the Soul. The Soul within has infinite energy, why not ask the Soul for strength [power]?

Dada Bhagwan

#14. There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

Gayle Forman

#15. Just by being with me, I feel like I have ruined a lot of things around you.

Mika Yamamori

#16. The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

#17. Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Aristotle.

#18. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

Richard Rohr

#19. He kept making me feel things in ruined places.

Alexis Hall

#20. Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

Robert Englund

#21. Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be
and are ruined.

W.K. Marriott

#22. I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.

J.R. Ward

#23. I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Roger Federer

#24. At the very outset of the Christian life these two things should be very distinct with you
sin which has ruined you, and Christ who has saved you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. A time is one's own, Eva, when oneself and one's peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man is ruined when the times change but he does not. Permit me to add, empires fall for the same reason.

David Mitchell

#26. There is no need to overreact. I'm certain there are worse things that could happen to a young lady than to be denied a voucher to Almack's." With a small smile, Amelia Bouchard folded up the letter that had delivered the bad news and tossed it into the fireplace.

Rachel Pierson

#27. I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us ...

Kate Chisman

#28. High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Doug Stanhope

#29. People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

Vendela Vida

#30. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.

Oscar Wilde

#31. They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined could be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with.

Diane Hammond

#32. It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

Sue Townsend

#33. For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

John Donne

#34. You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

Jonathan Coulton

#35. My twin's not broken. He's ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken, maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury him.

J.R. Ward