Ruins Quotes

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

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

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.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We moralize among ruins.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A man is a god in ruins.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

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

Politics ruins the character.

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.