Ruins Quotes - Page 35

• Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

  George Santayana

  Lovely, Promise, Gothic

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

  John Dryden

  Society, Politics, Politician

  Absalom and Achitophel pt. 1, l. 173 (1681)

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• Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

  Euripides

  Greatness, People, House

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Memories, War

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

  Sophocles

  Watches, Trouble, Danger

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

  Hannah More

  Imagination, Events, Shapes

  Hannah More (1838). “The Poetical Works of Hannah More”, p.73

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• The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strength, Independence, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Heart, Vitality

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• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  Walter Smith

  Work, Toil, Decay

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• It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

  William Manchester

  Tragedy, Events, Essentials

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Careers

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• I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”

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• The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Gold, Want

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• The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

  Winston Churchill

  Copying, Method, Emulate

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• Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Drinking, Food

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• European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fall, Church, World

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

  Lytton Strachey

  Civilization, Language, Existence

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• ... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

  Harold Russell

  Odds, Soul, Triumph

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• Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

  Meg Cabot

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Forgiveness, Want, Littles

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• The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

  Alexa Vega

  Thinking, People, Parent

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

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• In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

  Sean Durkin

  Cutting, Editing, Creating

  "FUTURES| Sundance’s Golden Boy Sean Durkin, Director/Writer of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Bourgeoisie, World, Might

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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