Ruins Quotes - Page 36

• A dog starv'd at the master's gate
  Predicts the ruin of the State.
  A horse misus'd upon the road
  Calls to heaven for human blood.
  Each outcry of the hunted hare
  A fibre from the brain does tear,
  A skylark wounded on the wing,
  A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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• There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

  Bob Dylan

  Boys, Social Taboos, New Orleans

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• I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

  Mindy McCready

  Mom, Blame, Responsible

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 11, 2005.

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• It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: The Lifesaver" by Sarah J. Robbins, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2012.

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• No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

  Edward Livingston

  Abuse, Suffering, Slavery

  Edward Livingston (2010). “A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana”, p.10, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

  Rod Stewart

  Morning, Profound, Bombs

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• As a person progresses along the path of power, they attract certain forces and beings from other dimensions, who feel the power that you are storing. Sometimes they want some of it; sometimes they want to ruin you. We call these beings entities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Progress, Want, Path

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• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Drama, Russia

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• I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

  Holly Valance

  Girlfriend, People, Sitting Down

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• Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

  J. B. Jackson

  Rejection, Reform, Restoration

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• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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• Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Sheep, Kingdoms

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

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• A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Jobs, Real

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• Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Long, Answers, Enough

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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• I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs. I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Hate, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspiring, Peace, Diversity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Flower, Ideas

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.

  Robin Hanson

  Believe, People, Evil

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• I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

  Charles Willeford

  Stupid, Wings, Long

  Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press

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• I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

  Brad Pitt

  Hurt, Growing Up, Believe

  "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

  Brad Pitt

  Religious, Hurt, Growing Up

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  Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

  Marlon Brando

  Success, Too Much

  "The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalised". Interview with Truman Capote in Kyoto, Japan, www.theguardian.com. 1957.

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• Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

  Jim Rash

  People, Too Much, Ifs

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

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• I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

  James Mercer

  Party, Talking, Stuff

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