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Quotes About Ruin

Zu viele Gedanken machen alles kaputt - das Essen und die Liebe.
~ Jenny Nelson
In Conisborough there's no Hoxton Square to bring a bit of light relief. It's just mile after mile of broken windows and the bloody Earth Centre.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
~ Jerome Lawrence
George Smeaton wrote, "[The apostle Paul] exhibits the two great counterparts of sin and righteousness as equal realities — the one as the world's ruin, the other as its restoration. The one is a completed fact as well as the
~ Jerry Bridges
You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.
~ Jerry Stahl
Albert expresses it: ''The war has ruined us for everything.'' He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The war has ruined us for everything. He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
On je ?ovek, on želi svoju propast.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
He had collapsed like a rotten tree.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The war has ruined us for everything.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.
~ Erin Gruwell
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Cómo te arruinaste? —preguntó Bill. —De dos formas: primero poco a poco, y luego de repente.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you want to do real damage, you don't just break a thing, you destroy a system.
~ Andrew Mayne
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
~ Andrew Young
Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Something has crumbled inside him. Something has broken. Like corrupt clockwork in a smashed watch.
~ Andy Remic
ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design
~ Angela Carter
Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him.
~ Angela Carter
from Euripides: "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
~ Xun Kuang
There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.
~ John McAfee
I will not let anyone dig up and ruin the peace of Chandigarh to facilitate movement of people from Mohali and Panchkula.
~ Kirron Kher
Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
~ Adam Rickitt