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Quotes About Ruin

One of the best ways to ruin a program is to make massive changes to its structure in the name of improvement. Some programs never recover from such "improvements." The problem is that it's very hard to get the program working the same way it worked before the "improvement.
~ Robert C. Martin
What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion?
~ Robert Greene
Do not be led astray by a false sense of honor," said the Athenians. "Honor often brings men to ruin when they are faced with an obvious danger that somehow affects their pride.
~ Robert Greene
Drunk with success and sick with ambition, such empires expand to grotesque proportions and meet a ruin that is total. This
~ Robert Greene
And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered
~ Robert Jordan
Power of the Shadow made human flesh, wakened to turmoil, strife and ruin. The Reborn One, marked and bleeding, dances the sword in dreams and mist, chains the Shadowsworn to his will, from the city, lost and forsaken, leads the spears to war once more, breaks the spears and makes them see, truth long hidden in the ancient dream.
~ Robert Jordan
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE. Those skeletons were part of the psychological warfare waged against all intruders by this mindless, deathless, diabolical city.
~ Robert Silverberg
A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.
~ L.M. Montgomery
El orgullo viene delante de la destrucción y un espíritu arrogante antes de la caída»
~ L.M. Montgomery
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
~ Ray Bradbury
Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.
~ C.J. Anderson, Ruinland
There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.
~ C.J. Anderson, Ruinland
She revived the extraordinary Anglo-Saxon word dustsceawung, meaning 'the fascination experienced by someone looking at a ruin, a kind of daydream of dust, pondering that which has been lost: dust-seeing, dust-chewing, dust-cheering. The daydream of a mind strung between past and present.
~ Adam Nicolson
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
~ Adam Smith
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
~ Aesop
You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
~ Aimee Bender
Men often want to love, without managing to do so: they seek their own ruin without being able to attain it, and, if I can put it thus, they are forced against their will to remain free.
~ Alain de Botton
He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.
~ Alain de Botton
Los hombres muchas veces desean el amor sin conseguirlo; buscan su propia ruina sin ser capaces de alcanzarla y de alguna manera, se ven forzados a permanecer libres en contra de su voluntad.
~ Alain de Botton
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous
~ Alan Moore
Unlike T.V., we cannot have too much of science, despite its nuclear quirks. With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth ... but we, as gardeners, must beware, for some seeds are the seeds of ruin, and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous.
~ Alan Moore
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
~ Djuna Barnes
Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.
~ Thales