Ruined Quotes - Page 4

• The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

  Arthur Murray

  People, Insulting, England

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• The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

  Mary Antin

  Matter, Czars, Dues

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Sound, Investing

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

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• The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

  Elliott White Springs

  Sports, Wine, Player

  Elliott White Springs, A. Roy Brown, Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Norman Shannon Hall (1929). “Pilots' Luck”

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• She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Thinking, Soul

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• "That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us... all those things." But buried alive?! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know the one with all the horror." "I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" "Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me."

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Guy, Littles

  "Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code". Book by Eoin Colfer, April 27, 2003.

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• I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Pain, Care, Hold Me

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Night, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know which guys are doing steroids and which ones aren't. I don't judge anybody. Everybody has their own life and people do what they want. It's like smoking pot. If you experiment with it, it doesn't mean you're the devil, and it doesn't mean you've ruined your body. It just means you tried it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Mean, People, Judging

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Eye, Names

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

  Pete Yorn

  Girl, Stories, Cigarette

  Song: Strange Condition, Album: Musicforthemorningafter

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• I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

  Karen Black

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Real, Ironic

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• It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Coffee, Forever, Shows

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• What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mean, Frustrated, What If

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• Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

  Lauren Kate

  Daughter, Couple, Angel

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.556, Delacorte Press

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• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Too Much, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Wind

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• It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

  Sebastian Barry

  Hero, Peculiar, Half

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Thinking

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• Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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• No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Men, Long

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hands, World, Conformity

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.162, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The war has ruined us for everything.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Jobs, Political, Lawyer

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