Ruined Quotes

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

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

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.

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

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.

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

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

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

'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.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

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

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

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

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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.

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.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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.

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.

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.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

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

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.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

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.