Ruined Quotes - Page 11

• He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

  François Lelord

  Regret, Years, Long

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.9, Gallic Books

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for
  that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  Samuel Beckett

  One Day, Watches, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

  Carson McCullers

  Atheist, Heart, Afternoon

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Children, Hands

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• For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.

  Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake

  Wall, Spring, Blessed

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• Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Giving, Example

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• A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Thinking, Hands

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi

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• Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Sex, Son

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• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  Polly Toynbee

  Faith, School, Government

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Example, Stories, Limits

  "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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• There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Wisdom, Australia, States

  Catherine Helen Spence (1907). “State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments”

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
  Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
  your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
  and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
  slips through the narrow channels of blood
  to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
  to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

  Sam Storms

  Son, Grace, Soul

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• Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Sometimes, Mercy

  'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

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• I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Shopping, People, Want

  " I always wanted to be a pop star..." by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.

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• I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.

  Jack Gilbert

  Son, America, Cities

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.36, Knopf

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• It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

  Josiah Warren

  Insecurity, Principles, Ruins

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• The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.

  Charlize Theron

  Hands, Materials, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Dust, Feet, Poetry

  Thomas De Quincey (1853). “Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers”, p.12, Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

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• Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don’t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.

  Larry Hite

  Careers, People, Risk

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• Treasure is stored in the ruined places.
  Do not break the hearts of the poor
  and heartbroken people

  Rumi

  Heartbroken, People, Treasure

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• To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

  Oscar Wilde

  Self, Poetry Is, Honour

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

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• Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

  Leigh Bardugo

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