Quotes About Ruin

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It was about such people that he complained to Atticus: "I will only say this, and I believe you know I am right: it was not enemies but jealous friends who ruined me.

His humiliating double defeat at sea not only signaled the ruin of his hopes to eliminate Sextus Pompeius

who set on fire all the siege equipment and destroyed it.

One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.

She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated.

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?

Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.

It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

It' so funny how small moments can ruin everything.

People are afraid of us. We're their monsters. Except they're the ones who are afraid of what they don't understand. They're the ones who ruin everything.

It's funny how small moments can ruin everything.

Now an empty shell, after its heart was blown out by a Venetian cannonball in 1687

it was the nature of war to ruin the earth and to separate people, to keep their fates unknown to the ones who loved them, and to fill the minds of the living with various kinds of fear, regret, shame, and anger, and deprive them of all but the most fleeting moments of peace.

As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

To be an actress," she said; "to ruin one's life before a room full of people ... What fun!

My mother says often enough that a young lady with my improper attitude can only come to ruin. I hope she's right.

Had Jane felt that way this whole time? Back when it had all happened, Sylvie remembered feeling really angry at her: Sylvie had chosen Brown partly so she could be at college with her sister. Then Jane had gotten pregnant and ruined everything.

Let beloved idiots ruin their own lives, if that's what they're dead set on doing, with no attempt whatsoever at control or behavior modification from you.

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth