Quotes About Ruin

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her.

Senki sem törÅ'dhet bele, hogy örökre tönkretették az életét.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

Strive as she would to put some order in her thoughts, the words would not come more clearly; yet she felt that she could not leave him without trying to make him understand that she had saved herself whole from the seeming ruin of her life.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

I do not like to see any thing destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.