Quotes About Ruination

The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Often the mere suggestion of impropriety is enough to ruin someone. — Scot Harvath

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

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

To love something is to destroy it forever.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

the ruin of the South, by the emancipation of her slaves, is not like the ruin of any other people. It is not a mere loss of liberty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but it is the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having."7

But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined. Won't nothing help you then.

For you, he is the seed of destruction.

For the first time the specific and express thought came to him. And though he pushed it away in horror, he knew that, having once come, it would return. The thought was simply this: That he would ruin Eternity, if he had to. The worst of it was that he knew he had the power to do it.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Rationality does not depend on explicit verbalistic explanatory factors; it is only what aids survival, what avoids ruin.

In carrying on this hipster virus I live a locust-like existence, exhausting and shedding myself in ruination from one life to the next.

Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment's lost attention, and it's all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.

Earth looked as if some god had attacked it with a welder's torch, slashing away at it and leaving thin trails of incandescence.

to bring about the downfall of

Jealousy destroys the Moral competence to be Successful

But, Sire, the curse which shall ruin you eventually is the selfsame which ruins all men, irrespective of their actions good or evil, and that is Time, which is the issue of an incestuous act performed by God on reality.

Between wiener juice and lung blood, I'd say that chambray shirt was a goner.

The first force is evolution. Humanity changing, growing, becoming better than it was. The second force is ruination. Humanity making its best effort to demonstrate its worst tendencies. A march toward self-destruction.

He has gone to the demnition bowwows.

Some remote fragment of Main Line to somewhere else, there was, which was going to ruin the Money Market if it failed, and Church and State if it succeeded, and (of course), the Constitution, whether or no;