Ruined Quotes - Page 17

• If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

  Gil Kane

  Quality, Facts, Ifs

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• When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

  Jo Nesbo

  Mother, Teenager, Father

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• I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Self Esteem, Heart, Ugly

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• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  Ted Rall

  Tradition, Source, Blair

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• Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

  Carol Vorderman

  Careers, Watches, Rubies

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• Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Flower, Play, Ivy

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• Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

  James Altucher

  Purpose, Quests, Forget

  FaceBook post by James Altucher from Jul 29, 2016

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• Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Lust, Fortune

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.153

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• What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  And Love, New Life, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Sweet, Apples

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

  Ben Okri

  Artist, Broken, Enemy

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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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• Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

  Ellen Meloy

  Alaska, Squares, America

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• Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Past, Ruins

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• All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Faith, Fall, Single Word

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• H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.

  Bill Barich

  Long, Drunk, Tree

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• The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

  Robert Toombs

  Army, Virginia, Soldier

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• The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Suicide, Loss, Gambling

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.108

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• A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, Wild Roses, Roof

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.283

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• The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Sometimes, Vocation

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• God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.

  Paul P. Enns

  Fall, Unique, Men

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.97, Moody Publishers

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• It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honesty, Men, Yield

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

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• Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Buying, Economy, Has Beens

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Political, before the revolution”, p.240

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• Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.

  Azar Nafisi

  Heart, Reality, Intellectual

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