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Quotes About Ruin

Success tempts many to their ruin.
~ Phaedrus
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
~ S. E. Hinton
No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
~ John Dillinger
Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.
~ Jim Rash
I don't think it's possible to ruin a relationship because of anything you do. I think it's about whether or not you're supposed to be together.
~ Evan Ross
Expectations ruin relationships.
~ Jim Bob Duggar
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
~ Arthur Murphy
Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.
~ Graham Yost
I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.
~ Mannie Fresh
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.
~ Peter Prange
Success tempts many to their ruin.
~ Phaedrus
He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see what it was Zoia had decided to destroy.
~ Philip Sington
Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.
~ Billie Eilish
To blindly and repeatedly assert one's own position, one's own righteousness, and one's own rectitude in the face of widely held opinion to the contrary was not democracy. It was an attempt at autocracy—a bid, as Lincoln said, to "rule or ruin in all events.
~ Jon Meacham
To Randolph the answer was self-evident. Jefferson had proved too much of a compromiser. Moderation, Randolph said, was "the mask which ambition has worn" through the ages.27 By the last year of the president's term, Randolph would tell James Monroe, "The old republican party is already ruined, past redemption."28 Jefferson
~ Jon Meacham
But surely stock-market psychopaths can't be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths,' I said. 'Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
~ Jon Ronson
Serial killers ruin families." Bob shrugged. "Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
~ Jon Ronson
Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.
~ Jon Stewart
I wanted to save myself from that drug that contaminates the body and veins and not from the other drug, you know that drug that enters through your eyes and your private area, the one that settles into your heart to screw it up, that damn drug that naive people call love. The stupid drug that's just as dangerous and deadly as the one that you find on the streets wrapped up in little packages.
~ Jorge Franco
This City" (I thought) "is so horrible that its mere existence and perdurance, though in the midst of a secret desert, contaminates the past and the future and in some way even jeopardizes the stars. As long as it lasts, no one in the world can be strong or happy.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
~ Joseph Addison
The signal-fires of warning They blaze, but none regard; And on through night to morning The world runs ruinward.
~ A.E. Housman
For the funds will fall and be the ruin of thousands, and when England is sunk into a salutary wretchedness and discontent, then our opportunity will come.
~ A.E.W. Mason