Ruin Quotes

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

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

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.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

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.

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

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

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

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.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.