Quotes About Ruin

There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Pride ruined the angels.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

My twin's not broken. He's ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken, maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury him.

My twin's not broken. He's ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken, maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury him.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

In every way that mattered, we lost and we lost big. Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out. Some cases--ask any cop--are malignant and incurable, devouring everything they touch.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Earth looked as if some god had attacked it with a welder's torch, slashing away at it and leaving thin trails of incandescence.