Ruins Quotes - Page 33

• Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

  Melissa Bean

  Data, Numbers, Hands

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• My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

  George R. R. Martin

  Crush, Dream, Thinking

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• The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, History, Conquer

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.

  Marcel Theroux

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• 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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• Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Being In Love, Willing

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.266, Macmillan

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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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• You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.

  Robert Benchley

  Inspirational, Suicide, Want

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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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• Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives.

  Shannon Leto

  People, Different, Way

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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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• I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

  Thomas Browne

  Believe, Principles, World

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.65

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• Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Pope Pius IX

  Believe, Names, Evil

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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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• He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Done, Neglect, Preservation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  Tacitus

  Generosity, Moderation, Candor

  "Quote Junkie: Greek and Roman : An Interesting Collection of Quotes from the Greatest Greek and Roman Philosophers and Leaders". Book edited by the Hagopian Institute, p. 62, 2008.

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• The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

  Bill Gross

  Moving, Odds, Differences

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• So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

  James Michael

  Weed, Kindness, Hate

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• Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

  Leon Trotsky

  Fighting, Order, Justice

  Leon Trotsky (1958). “Diary in Exile, 1935”, Cambridge : Harvard University Press

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