Quotes about ruins
ruins empires expeditions
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Thomas de Quincey
ruins purpose seems
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it? Saul Bellow
ruins bourgeoisie commodity
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. Walter Benjamin
ruins realms allegory
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. Walter Benjamin
ruins alternatives improvement
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. Christopher Lasch
ruins germany culture
Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. Friedrich Nietzsche
ruins germany culture
As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. Friedrich Nietzsche
ruins greatest-love plus
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves. Jean Anouilh
ruins reconstruction antiquity
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. Joseph Joubert
ruins concepts
I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. Greg Kinnear
ruins idiot
Don't let the idiots ruin your day. James De La Vega
ruins mood lending
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
ruins life-is debris
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. Jose Ortega y Gasset
ruins irritated appetite
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. Emile M. Cioran
ruins should recalls
Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile. Emile M. Cioran
ruins recovering
Ruin and recovering are both from within. Epictetus
ruins painting
Never ruin a good painting with the truth. Henri Matisse
ruins want film
This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably. Helena Christensen
ruins manners states
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. Jonathan Swift
ruins india lancashire
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. Mahatma Gandhi
ruins india want
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations. Mahatma Gandhi
ruins
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. Garrett Hardin
ruins restraint
Restraint never ruins one's health. Mahatma Gandhi
ruins cry refuge
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. Oscar Wilde
ruins humans
Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless. Leopold Von Ranke
ruins causes advancement
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin. Niccolo Machiavelli
ruins vices strange
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. Oscar Wilde
ruins constitution idleness
Idleness ruins the constitution Ovid
ruins conspiracy weary
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads. Martha Beck
ruins
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is. Markus Zusak
ruins tugging thirteen
Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole. George Washington
ruins matter no-matter-what
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes. Tennessee Williams
ruins copying method
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. Winston Churchill