Top 54 Ruins Someone Quotes
#1. The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.
Scott Lynch
#2. Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
Statius
#3. Idleness ruins the constitution
Ovid
#4. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.
Junot Diaz
#5. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Joseph Addison
#8. All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.
Bertrand Russell
#9. I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.
Steven Pinker
#10. Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Hart Crane
#11. What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
Elbridge Gerry
#12. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication
Groucho Marx
#13. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
George Crabbe
#14. How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
Marcel Duchamp
#16. I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.
Julius Evola
#17. When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.
Greg Gutfeld
#18. Did that ever happen to you? You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything? Do you know what I'm talking about?
Matthew Quick
#19. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I, too, am here." However,
Thomas Ligotti
#20. Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
Jack Whitehall
#21. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
James Cook
#23. What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
Francis Of Assisi
#24. One little step of a Big Mistake,
ruins only your life
and the love of someone else.
September 24, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
Amen
Petra Hermans
#25. Because, when you invite someone in and they leave, they take a part of you with them. It ruins the foundation. Don't you see? It's damaging when you pull the bricks out and the whole building collapses.
Karina Halle
#26. Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#27. You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything
Matthew Quick
#28. Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#30. a squatter in the ruins of empire,
M.R. Carey
#31. He destroys that he might build; for when He is about to rear His sacred temple in us, He first totally razes that vain and pompous edifice, which human art and power had erected, and from its horrible ruins a new structure is formed, by His power only.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#32. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Honore De Balzac
#33. What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren't alive.
Walt Whitman
#35. Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.
Kevin R. Stone
#37. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.
Janet Fitch
#38. Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Mario Puzo
#39. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.
Lindy West
#40. God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all! ... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Thomas Carlyle
#42. Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth; they were born in the bosom of war, for war. For fifteen years they had dreamed of the snows of Moscow and of the sun of the Pyramids.
Alfred De Musset
#43. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
Fred Reed
#44. The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.
Margaret Halsey
#45. Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.
Peter Medawar
#46. Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.
Dean Koontz
#47. Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
James Russell Lowell
#49. Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time ...
Bob Dylan
#50. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
Benjamin Franklin
#51. The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Baron De Montesquieu
#52. Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
Walter Benjamin
#53. Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
Jeaniene Frost
#54. If this valley is indeed cursed," Atherton continued, "there's the source. The Muslims named this set of ruins Mao Balegh, which means Cursed City.
James Rollins
