Ruin Quotes

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

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

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

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.

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

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

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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.

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

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.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

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.

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

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.

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.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

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