Quotes About Ruin

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Man will be the death of life yet.

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

He was now nothing but a ruin, but a splendid one; grander than a ruin, he had the romantic beauty of a rock beaten by a tempest. Scourged from every side by the waves of suffering, by rage at his suffering, his face, slowly crumbling like a block of granite almost submerged by the towering seas, retained the style, the suavity I had always admired.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come. Then nothing did, and no one.

You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

The fear of failure & the fear of disappointment can really hurt ones personality and ruin his or her life in general. We should all learn to overcome or fight these fears because they will not do us any good.

A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth. - Barney Stinson

Facerea primului om a fost semnul dec?derii totale ?i absolute a cerului.

The mystery of death throws shadows over even the most carefree human life. None of us is truly indifferent to the possible issues concerning our personal eternity. The fall and eternal ruin of an immortal spirit is the most dreadful tragedy imaginable.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.