Ruins Quotes - Page 26

• Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.

  Veronica Webb

  Underwear, Pairs, Knows

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• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

  Henry James

  Loyalty, Country, School

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

  Joy Harjo

  Song, Land, Yellow

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• The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Home, Empires, Overwhelmed

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• We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

  Marshall Berman

  Ruined

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• Don't let people with no life ruin yours.

  Colin Cowherd

  People

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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• And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Ambition, Imagination, Good Intentions

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• Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Trust, Care, Too Much

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.250, Printed for H. Colborn

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• War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Rip, Tears

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.

  Israel Shamir

  Christian, Years, Long

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• Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

  Anton Chekhov

  Girl, Men, Lakes

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).

  Anne Lamott

  Block, Writing, California

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Climate, Minimum Wage

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• Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Ambition, Self Confidence

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.107, FV Éditions

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• May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!

  Joseph Warren

  Land, Names, Liberty

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• I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

  Mary Leakey

  Depressing, Mean, Years

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• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Trying, Tao Ching

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• In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

  Albert Mohler

  Life, Impatience, Neglect

  FaceBook post by Albert Mohler from May 15, 2014

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• We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Doubt, Earth

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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

  David Pogue

  Enough, Products, Ifs

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