Ruin Quotes

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

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

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

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

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

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

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.

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

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

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.

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.

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

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.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

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

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

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

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

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

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

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

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