Ruins Quotes - Page 25

• The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Leaving, Disaster

  Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Art, Book, Messages

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• Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.

  C. W. Ceram

  Adventure, Past, Men

  "Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology".

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• The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

  Andreas Vesalius

  Art, Doctors, Medicine

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• Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

  John Angell James

  Heart, Character, Rich Or Poor

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• I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

  Bill Murray

  Reputation, Made, Horrible

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• I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

  Joan Baez

  People, Individual, Having Hope

  "Q: Didn't hanging out with Dylan and the Beatles feel like intruding on a boys' club? A: Yeah. So I'd make tea. And dry Dylan's sweaty vests". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2006.

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• From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Memories, Confused, Men

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• If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

  David Pogue

  Enough, Products, Ifs

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• And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strong, Firsts

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.331

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• Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

  Mario Puzo

  Writing, Wife, Start The Day

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• Don't slag off other creators or companies. We'll cheerfully mock dumb politicians on Twitter, but we try to never slam another creator's work or make fun of another company's projects or initiatives. First, because life's too short. We'd rather use that time to celebrate the fantastic work of colleagues and friends. Second, because it's a small world, and people have long memories. A few snarky words today can ruin a chance for an incredibly rewarding creative partnership tomorrow.

  Greg Pak

  Fun, Memories, Long

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Agency

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

  Paul Valery

  Education, Ignorance, Men

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• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Forgiveness, Hate

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• Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Yesterday, Let It Go

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2016

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• Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

  Gene Logsdon

  Sports, Baseball, Technology

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.133, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

  Sidney Howard

  People, Reputation, Drink

  Sidney Coe Howard (1980). “GWTW, the screenplay”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.

  Judah Smith

  Powerful, Worry, Relax

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

  Brian Ruckley

  Letting Go, Memories, Heart

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• The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."

  Ann M. Dibb

  Frustration, Men, Iron

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• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Book, Glowing

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• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Selfish, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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