Ruined Quotes

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

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!

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

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

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.

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.