Ruined Quotes - Page 20

• If anyone really thinks that I've ruined [sexual assault] reporting for women, I'm terribly sorry. And if anybody really thinks I'm clamouring for fame on the back of women who were assaulted, that's terrible.

  Lucy DeCoutere

  Sorry, Thinking, Fame

  Source: int-www.macleans.ca

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• Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, Health Care, Destruction

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

  Alfred de Musset

  Christianity, Emperor, Saved

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• Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.

  Arundhati Roy

  Capitalist Economy, Iran, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

  Thomas Mars

  Song, Apples, Association

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, May, Live Simply

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• Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

  David Farrier

  Reality, People, Watches

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

  Michael Gira

  Art, School, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Taken, Son

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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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• It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Struggle, Men, Mind

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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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• Pride ruined the angels,
  Their shame them restores;
  And the joy that is sweetest
  Lurks in stings of remorse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Pride, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

  Aurora Rose Reynolds

  Stupid, Book, Reading

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Heart, Bridges

  "The Jewish moral virtues". Book by Eugene Borowitz, 1999.

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• The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

  Theodor Herzl

  Character, People, Charity

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• Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Certain, Young

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• The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Choices, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.857, Library of America

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• Silent rushes the swift Lord
  Through ruined systems still restored,
  Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
  Plants with worlds the wilderness;
  Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
  Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
  House and tenant go to ground,
  Lost in God, in Godhead found.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Eden, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.158

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• God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 02, 2013

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• If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.

  Michael Lind

  Education, Jobs, Health

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• We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Might, Election

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

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• I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Thinking, India

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• Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Character, Theatre

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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