Ruins Quotes - Page 19

• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Order, Quiet

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

  Karl Marx

  Giving, Atheism, Facts

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• And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

  Charles Dickens

  Compassion, Punishment, Vanity

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.3513, e-artnow

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• But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

  John Denham

  Brother, Kings, Son

  John Denham, “On Mr. John Fletcher's Works”

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• A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Memories, Land, History

  Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

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• God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Wrath, Long Ago

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• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Running, Loneliness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Desire, Prosperity

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• Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

  Eric Liddell

  Optimistic, Love Is, Work Out

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• Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.

  Richard Kirwan

  Knowledge, Science, Rome

  Richard Kirwan (1799). “Geological essays”, p.5

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• It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Liberty, World, Libertarian

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• 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Soul, Purpose, Examination

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• Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

  Angela Merici

  Sleep, Devil, Way

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• It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Favors

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• Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Philosophical

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

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• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

  John Tillotson

  Ignorance, Two, Causes

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• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
  No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
  Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

  Al-Ghazali

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Lying

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• A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

  George Schaller

  Death, Long Ago, Ideas

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• Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Nice, Memorable, People

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

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Ivy, Romance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “The Marble Faun”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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