Ruins Quotes - Page 3

• Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Shame, Scientist

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

  Jean de La Fontaine

  House, May, Faces

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• The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Mistake, Men, Artist

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

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• Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Love Is, Roots

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• It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

  John William De Forest

  Inspirational, Failure, Temptation

  John William De Forest (1859). “Seacliff; Or, The Mystery of the Westervelts”, p.41

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• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Politics ruins the character.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Character, Adversity, Politics

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• Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Tyrants, Luxury, Republic

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• In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Bridges, Broken, Expectations

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2008). “The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  Giving, Curiosity, Lasts

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Heart, Cities, History

  Interview with Pierre van Paassen, The Toronto Daily Star, July 24, 1936.

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• Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taught, Impatience

  Michel de Montaigne, Donald Murdoch Frame (1963). “Essays and Selected Writings”

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• One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Fool, Attention

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

  Don Imus

  People, Goal

  "Imus blazed the trail for shock jocks to follow" by By Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Patriotism ruins history.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Honesty, Patriotism

  Conversation with Friedrich Wilhem Riemer, July 1817.

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Boston

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

  Ben Jonson

  Relax, Reputation, Produce

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• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  Natalie Portman

  Stars, Smart, College

  "Model of integrity" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 03, 2004.

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• It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

  Mark Hoppus

  Drinking, Marijuana, Voice

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• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

  William Wells Brown

  Brother, Wind, Justice

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• Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

  Francis Quarles

  Revenge, Blood, Sweat

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.15

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• It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Cities, America, Spain

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

  M. R. James

  Elderly, Views, Sound

  M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James

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• Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Fall, Confusion

  Translation of Horace Odes bk. 3, ode 3.

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