Ruins Quotes

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Bad company ruins good morals.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

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.

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

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

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

You need to have a life. Have fun. Then ruin it by having a serious relationship

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.