Ruin Quotes - page 2

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. (José Rizal)
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon. View quote
Susan Sontag
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it. View quote
Norbert Wiener
Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. View quote
Washington Irving
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune. View quote
Walter Raleigh
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. View quote
Emil Cioran
The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise. View quote
Emil Cioran
She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me. View quote
Billy Joel
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women. View quote
Wilkie Collins
The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. (L. Ron Hubbard)
I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image. View quote
Courtney Love
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice. View quote
George Washington
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. View quote
Berenice Abbott
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. View quote
Djuna Barnes
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior. View quote
Sarah Grimké
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. View quote
Edith Wharton
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
A kiss may ruin a human life. (Oscar Wilde)
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes. View quote
Thomas Gray
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. View quote
Thomas Gray
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. View quote
John Gay