Quotes About Ruin

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don't want to know - because why ruin a story?

There were absences in my life which were a comfort, then were was a presence that ruined me.

A year's work can be ruined quickly, sometimes within seconds, if roasting isn't done well.

T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.

Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that serves no real purpose. That's my favorite kind, you know! That's the best!

All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split trunks. I sat there and continued to watch the sky as, out of nowhere, great solid-looking clouds built hot stacks and cotton cones. I was sixteen years old.

No, I am not," Grant shot back, "but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

Lo dice Sylvia Plath en sus diarios: «Soy ese tipo de mujer que, cuando empieza a llover [...], solo puede pensar en ventanas abiertas, ventanas de coche, ventanas de una segunda planta, ventanas por todas partes abiertas mientras la lluvia cae a raudales [...] echando a perder irremediablemente la madera, el papel de las paredes, los libros y los muebles».

Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel!

Una donna può perdonare l'uomo che ha rovinato tutto il lavoro della sua vita, se quest'uomo saprà darle amore; un uomo, invece, potrà perdonare chi ha distrutto il suo amore, ma non chi ha distrutto il suo lavoro. [La luce che si spense]

in a squalid, run-down house in the worst

La storia è spesso frutto di una leggerezza. Il frutto bastardo della stupidità umana, un parto dell'obnubilazione, dell'idiozia e della pazzia. In questi casi la storia è opera di gente che non sa quello che fa, anzi che neanche lo vuole sapere, che respinge quest'eventualità con rabbia e disgusto. La vediamo precipitarsi verso la propria rovina, irretirsi da sola, annodarsi il cappio, verificare con cura che reti e cappi siano solidi, resistenti, efficaci.

Más tarde, cuando se hubieron marchado todos los panaderos, fontaneros, electricistas, carteros y porteros, la ciudad de piedra perdió su razón de ser, el sentido de su existencia. No era más que un esqueleto desnudo pulido por el viento, un hueso roído que sobresalía de la tierra en dirección al sol

an adventure that every human being has to live through, learning to be anxious so as not to be ruined either by never having been in anxiety or by sinking into it. Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

a decimated wasteland

And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to throw a party.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.