Ruins Quotations

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know what's even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products..

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

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.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

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.

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.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

When I came to A.C.T. 15 years ago, the Geary lay in ruins and the company was in a perilous financial state. Since then, I have witnessed a tremendous period of growth. This anniversary season is a chance to celebrate some of the wonderful artists we have had the good fortune to work with at A.C.T., to bring great new works to a region that continues to support and cherish this company, and to look ahead toward an even brighter future.

One ruins the mind if he or she indulges in bad deeds and ends up in misery.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Money is the crux of our business. People take jobs because of money. Money ruins everyone.

Last year was a rush job. That's how the Derby ruins you. We're lucky we got out of that in one piece with this horse.

Losing is never easy. It ruins your day.

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Mom does a lot of lake swimming. I do a little bit but it ruins your stroke.

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame

I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.

For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lover and lover,/ The light that loses, the night that wins.

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

History is testimony to the fact that kings, who did so ended up in ruins and misery. Such kings were always devoid of stability, peace and success.

The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

Rescuers are hoping that the majority of people trapped in the ruins can be brought out alive.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

I think porn is horrible. I think it ruins our society. Guys look at girls as objects.

I think that's why this thing is getting attention. It doesn't behave the way people think it should; it ruins files. That's the kind of thing that usually scares people.

I think it just ruins the entire neighborhood.

When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Ruin still used Reen's voice-it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing...it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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!

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.