Quotes About Ruin

His future was all there like a three-draw spyglass shut up and compact and he would draw it out cylinder by cylinder. Behind him were the flames of a burning barn in Kentucky and a childhood of bastardy. The worst was knowing all the time he was a good fiddler, even a superb fiddler, but long before this time and surely now many a good man had gone down to ruin or death unrecognized and probably drunk into the bargain.

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.

And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.

Love gets everything all screwed up. It's one of those lies that ruin the world.

They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy.

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

A large population is a kingís splendor, but a lack of subjects is a princeís ruin.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”