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Quotes About Ruined

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.
~ Marcel Proust
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
Life is too short to start your day with broken pieces of yesterday, it will definitely destroy your wonderful today and ruin your great tomorrow!
~ Unknown
I]t was the way The ruined moonlight fell across her hair, It was that, and it was more. — Mark Strand, from section II of "What It Was," Blizzard of One: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)
~ Mark Strand
I was going to become a human sand burger.
~ Unknown
Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
~ Bertrand Russell
The legend that matrimony is a lottery has almost ruined the lottery business
~ Unknown
She is afraid I will get lost. Lost adj. 1. No longer known. 2. Unable to find the way. 3. Ruined or destroyed. I'm afraid I already am.
~ Mary E. Pearson
For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.
~ Unknown
How can I but weep and lament? An eagle with claws like a lion has swooped down upon me. He has captured my beauty, my riches, my children. Our land is a desert! our city ruined. Our brothers have been carried away to a place where our fathers never dwelt—nor our grandfathers—nor our great-grandfathers!
~ Unknown
defective social organization and an arrogant nobility that ruined Poland.
~ Unknown
Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself." "Should we live in sin then?" "No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples." "So what should we do?" "I don't know.
~ Meša Selimovi?
I had a life with people who I would die for! You've ruined everything. I despise you," he spat. "You're supposed to despise him," Arjuro muttered. "He's your father.
~ Melina Marchetta
No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
~ Michael Chabon
He knows the human heart cannot resist a cry of "Why" when innocence is ruined;
~ Unknown
Maybe we can hold the windows and doors," Mars said doubtfully. The ruined building was little more than a shell, with no roof and gaping empty rectangles for windows. "But if they charge us Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "They're charging!" Hel shouted.
~ Michael Scott
The affairs of the people have gone to ruin. See, all the craftsmen, they do not work, The land's foes have despoiled its craftsmen.
~ Unknown
But the ruined South—the war had cost it $13.6 billion—wanted its cotton, its only source of income and still the nation's major export commodity, amounting to nearly two-thirds of U.S. exports by 1889 and three-quarters of the world's supply.11
~ Myron Magnet
Sex had ruined her childhood, scarred her so badly that she'd used it as a weapon to hurt herself. For her it was nothing good, nothing that could be allowed into a relationship. Because , he understood at last, this relationship was important .
~ Nalini Singh
Slavery ruined the "industry of our White People," he confessed, for they saw a "Rank of Poor Creatures below them," and detested the thought of work out of a perverse pride, lest they might "look like slaves.
~ Unknown
It was this little troublemaker named Ralph Waldo Duffy. Ralph Waldo is the one who really ruined the pageant. He picked up the baby Jesus by the feet, and your mother stood up in front of God and everybody and yelled, 'Joseph, put Jesus down before I smack you.' Even then she had the makings of a good mother.
~ Unknown
Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.
~ Unknown