Quotes About Ruin

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.

a man who has the strength of character to leave off when he has only ruined others, is a reformed character.

With either soul or body lost, all perisheth.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within

A man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.

saber cómo acaba la vida solo conseguiría estropear la historia.

And then the roar. That roar. The roar of the end of all hope.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

CATÁSTROFE Y RUINA UNIVERSAL: EXPERIMENTO LETAL

Dust coated the long-dark light fixtures on the ceiling, at least half of them busted, jagged glass screwed into rusty holes.

New York has collapsed.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

He was a man whom prosperity harmed.

What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

Every ruin is packed like a biscuit box.

I hope,' Lymond said, 'you are not expecting your wages. If every candidate for mort-pay turned up eleven months after his demise you would ruin the Kingdom, if the Cardinal hadn't thought of it first. We thought we had lost you.

I was most upset to hear of its destruction.

Maybe people with weird haircuts are like structures that become interesting only after being wrecked - Florida ranch houses half-fallen into sinkholes; bankrupt malls; civilizations after a nuclear war. I feel a warm tragic glow knowing I may be of interest to the world only once I have been destroyed.

But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

You have no sense of proportion, Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.