Quotes About Ruin

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.

Some men just want to watch the world burn

In view of her penchant for something romantic DeSade is too trenchant and Dickens too frantic and Stendahl would ruin the plan of attack as there isn't much blue in THE RED AND THE BLACK. DeMaupassant's candor would cause her dismay The Brontes are grander But not very gay Her taste is much blander I'm sorry to say But is Hans Christian Andersen ever risque?

More than any single issue, Gil's essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era.

Of course, it's a little late for a heart to heart when one of the hearts is half a cup of ash.

I sometimes think about how easy it is for a nation to slip into complacency and ruin after decades of basking in the sun. Since science is the engine of prosperity, nations that turn their backs on science and technology eventually enter a downward spiral.

train wreck

Ruin, therefore, is not caused by lavatories but it's something that starts in people's heads. So when these clowns start shouting Stop the ruin! - I laugh!' 'I swear to you, I find it laughable! Every one of them needs to hit himself on the back of the head and then when he has knocked all the hallucinations out of himself and gets on with sweeping out backyards - which is his real job - all this ruin will automatically disappear

Un hombre con los ojos cerrados es una ruina de hombre.

Only two towers remained standing, one of which was so crooked and damaged it looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly.

For long lifetimes marked by the hulks of ruined planets, man was a geological and ecological force without knowing it, with little awareness of his own strength. — PARDOT KYNES, The Long

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Authority will lead you into ruin.

A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.

I know exactly where the decrepit, fallen-to-ruin castle of Winter is, as well as Spring, Summer, and Autumn, the High Court, and the queen's bower.

wood rot on the mantelpiece in the

We want an apocalypse to look like an apocalypse, not a slow day at the mall.

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

the bodies lying like so much fallen timber.

Cette mentalité accumule, puis libère chez le colonisé, ce qu'il y a de plus inférieur dans l'homme collectif; on a tout fait pour compromettre la tradition, dont On souhaite au fond du cœur la ruine, puis on s'étonne du mal qui jaillit de ses fissures.

With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism. Power falls into the hands of the ignorant many. Instead of the destinies of the country being swayed by the wisest and best, a fickle multitude, swayed by interested demagogues, assumes the direction of affairs, and the result is inevitable—wasted powers, gross mismanagement, final ruin.

The gods give, like twin flowers, power and ruin, memory and oblivion.