Ruins Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

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

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly 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.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

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

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

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

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

We moralize among ruins.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

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

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

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

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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.

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.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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.