Ruined Quotes

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

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

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

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.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.