Ruins Quotes

Politics ruins the character.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

A man is a god in ruins.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

We moralize among ruins.

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.