Quotes About Ruin

There are times when I feel that the only real aptitude of our species is that we can ruin anything.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.

But only men destroy and give back nothing.

Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished--

Se veía deshonrado, arruinado, perdido! Y su imaginación, asaltada por una multitud de hipótesis, se agitaba en medio de ellas como un tonel vacío arrastrado al mar y que flota sobre las olas.

inteligenÈ›a lui nu era destul de mare pentru a ajunge pîn? la Art?, nici destul de burghez? pentru a viza numai profitul, în aÈ™a chip încît, f?r? s? mulÈ›umeasc? pe nimeni, se ruina./ ...son intelligence n'était pas assez haute pour atteindre jusqu'à l'Art, ni assez bourgeoise non plus pour viser exclusivement au profit, si bien que, sans contenter personne, il se ruinait. (©BeQ)

la satisfacción de un momento es la ruina del siguiente.

It must, I thought as I viewed it, be the outcome of a fire; but why had nothing new ever grown over those five acres of grey desolation that sprawled open to the sky like a great spot eaten by acid in the woods and fields?

Out of the slaughter of some 20,000 Communards, out of military defeat and economic collapse, what had in fact emerged was a regime whose capacity for government had been doubtful from its inception. So much, indeed, was this the case that within three years a society brought to the brink of ruin was clamoring for a dictator.

Worn tires and ripped mattresses lay like war wounded in the middle of the road. Big chunks of cement peeked out from the high grass. There were stripped cars and while there were no fires burning, maybe there should have been.

The outer stairs and walkway terraces were made of rotting wood. The cement walls had that unfinished, swirling look that could cut your hand if you leaned against it wrong. Small chunks of concrete lay on the ground. An unplugged Pepsi machine guarded the door like one of the Queen's guards.

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

They march from safety, and the bird-sung joy Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky