Quotes and Sayings About Ruins
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Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
-- Adam Rickitt -
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
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In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.
-- Albert MohlerSource : FaceBook post by Albert Mohler from May 15, 2014
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.
-- Alexander PushkinSource : "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.
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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
-- Alfred Jarry -
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 -
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
-- Amelia BarrSource : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.116, Litres
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Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
-- Andrew GilliganSource : "Little chance country's nightmare will end soon". www.standard.co.uk. February 14, 2005.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
-- Angela Carter -
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
-- Ann Brashares -
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As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
-- Anselm KieferSource : "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.
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Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
-- Arsene Houssaye -
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
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 -
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
-- Ben Jonson -
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
-- Benvenuto CelliniSource : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
-- Berenice Abbott -
I detest war; it ruins conversation
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
-- Beverly Sills