Quotes of: Ruin Keyword

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Virgil

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Will Carleton

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

William Safire

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Chris Lilley

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Julian Casablancas

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.

Janet Flanner

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of civilisation had long since ebbed, leaving these scattered wrecks on the solitary shore. Are those waters to flow aga...

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Chance and Necessity

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

Candy

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Canada

Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.

The Complete Poems

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Casebook

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.

The Dysfunctional Test

But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined.

On an Edge of Glass

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

A God in Ruins

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Howl's Moving Castle

I rein myself in. I’m already breaking up with the guy. I don’t have to ruin his favorite movie.

The Break-Up Artist

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

Boy Proof