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Quotes About Ruined

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~ Joseph Lancaster
The Magravandians ruined my life before you became a part of it. We share that heritage. We are brothers in it.
~ Storm Constantine
I think I can explain her feeling," Sakina said, patting Razia's hand. "If it's publicly known that Amina has wandered the city, her reputation will be ruined. We will never find a groom for her.We are praying for Allah's blessing on her travels to Oudh. After that, we would humbly request your assistance in returning her to Bombay.
~ Sujata Massey
These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
~ Mona Simpson, Casebook
Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
~ Mohsin Hamid
These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
~ Mona Simpson
They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.
~ Nancy Farmer
Fear will ruin the future quicker than anything.
~ Carolyn Brown
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
~ Carson McCullers
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined. Won't nothing help you then.
~ Carson McCullers
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.
~ Subramanian Swamy
One's pretty lively when ruined.
~ Thomas Hardy
A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
~ Thomas Hardy
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a life-long comradeship tolerable.
~ Thomas Hardy
The house was overrun with ivy, its chimney being enlarged by the boughs of the parasite to the aspect of a ruined tower.
~ Thomas Hardy
In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!
~ Kay Warren
Her voice jolts me back to reality. Back to the reality of the past three years. There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
~ Gayle Forman
it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.
~ Immanuel Kant
Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.
~ Iris Murdoch
Only the house was still desolate and the day had a livid ruined atmosphere, time had been damaged in some deep way, like on a day of bereavement or frightful national disaster.
~ Iris Murdoch
She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.
~ Iris Murdoch
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
~ Charles Dickens
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
~ Kin Hubbard