Ruined Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I grew up with him [Michael Jackson] and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient... It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.

  Nicole Richie

  Hurt, Thinking, Stuff

  "Alicia Keys, LL Cool J, Ludacris Denounce Treatment Of Jackson". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. November 21, 2003.

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• The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.

  Clive Barker

  Wall, Moon, Mirrors

  "The Great and Secret Show". Book by Clive Barker, August, 1989.

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• You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

  Novala Takemoto

  Selfishness

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• Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

  Aesop

  Fake Friends, Fables, Betray

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.18, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hair, Eggs, Looks

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

  Sara Gruen

  Morning, Giving Up, Sleep

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• I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

  Paul Bley

  Thinking, Generations, May

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• You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Love, Romantic, Thinking

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• I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Hands, Referee

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• Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

  Phil Simms

  Sports, Fans, Radio

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• At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

  Sandra Lerner

  Decision, Cisco, Made

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• I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moving, Fall

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times (And Other Stories)”, p.595, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.

  John Simm

  People, Watches, Television

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• It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation.

  John Maus

  Teenage, Believe, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• ... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Jobs, Cancer, Drinking

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

  William Pitt

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  Speech in House of Commons, ca. March 1763 See Coke 1; Coke 8; Otis 2

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• I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But you'll get over the pain, it will eventually stop hurting. Now maybe the stain ruined your favourite pair of jeans, or maybe it was nothing special that was ruined, but either way the stain remains there. And with time, it will begin to fade, but it will always be there, a permanent reminder that you, too, once fell.

  John Mayer

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

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