Quotes About Ruination

Young lady, that is no reason to be soft on a villain! What have I told you about getting romantically involved with evil?" Sanaa closed her eyes. " 'It's not a bad way to kill time as long as it ultimately results in the total destruction of her lair and the ruination of her nefarious plans.

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

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

the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

To the destruction of what is.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Pride goes before destruction.

He understood that it only took one lunatic and a torch to bring everything to ruin.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

Horses are the ruination of everyone, your father has a craze for them but then we all do crazy things.

War! And I know nothing of it! This is the end of everything.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.

Jealousy. It burns so hot, so bright. It devours you until you're just a smoking ruin with nothing left inside. Nothing but ashes.

The desire for revenge is an acid that destroys everything it touches.

The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. The

It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and father of mischief. It has been the ruin of many worthy families, the loss of many a man's honor, and the cause of suicide. To all those who enter the list, it is equally fascinating. The successful gamester pushes his good fortune till it is overtaken by a reverse. The losing gamester, in hopes of retrieving past misfortunes, goes on from bad to worse."37 Washington

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.