Ruins Quotes - Page 27

• 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 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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• 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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• Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

  Friedrich List

  Letting Go, Suicide, Fall

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin “Schriften, reden, briefe ...”

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Religious, People

  "Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of modern Singapore, dies aged 91". Interview With Peter Lloyd, www.abc.net.au. March 23, 2015.

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• The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Creating, Mind

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• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Earth, Financial

  Barack Obama's speech on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2012.

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• To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

  Timothy Keller

  Beautiful, Sex, Degrees

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• Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.

  Kiera Cass

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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• Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

  Steven Holl

  Space, Water, Darkness

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• Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

  Otto Penzler

  Art, Book, People

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• There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Sight, Dear

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• I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

  Park Geun-hye

  Strong, Father, Watches

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• RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Maids, Belief, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Brother, Men

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• No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Anger, May

  "The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On the Acts of the Apostles".

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• Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, America, World

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• But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.

  Saint Timothy

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Important, Lessons, States

  "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.

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• Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

  Lil B

  People, Stereotype, Boxes

  "Audio And Best Quotes From Lil B's Nyu Lecture" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Cells, Ivy

  Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.70

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• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

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• Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
  "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
  "Yes. I want to ruin you."
  "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Fall, Want

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