Quotes About Ruin

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

Don't you know?" the two elders shot back, almost together. "Olokun gives money to people he hates. It destroys them.

On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

What I thought was a sea of dust is an ocean of death.

That's it," she said, balling her hands in fists. "I'm not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.

LEGEND OF THE SPECTACULAR RUIN The

Within minutes, mounds of concrete and earth were stacked and piled. The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after the flood.

That makes two weeks. Two weeks to change the world, and fourteen days to ruin it.

That makes two weeks, she would later write in the basement. Two weeks to change the world, and fourteen days to ruin it.

That would make two weeks, she would later write in the basemen. Two weeks to change the world, and fourteen days to ruin it.

No longer can I bear with the ruined god, betrayed and beaten by his own magic. Calling on powers best left unsummoned, he took human beings apart—and then he put them back together again.

it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.

Of all ruins, that of a fine man is the saddest.

Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain

Why would a football fan let a few flubbed minutes at the end of the game ruin three hours of bliss? Because a football game is a story. And in stories, endings matter.

Resentment is anger looking for payback. It's also a high-interest-earning emotion. Each new resentment is added to the ones from before. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a bitter barnacle of hatred.

Barry was born clever enough at gaining a fortune, but incapable of keeping one. For the qualities and energies which lead a man to achieve the first are often the very cause of his ruin in the latter case.