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Quotes About Ruined

what a charming companion, what a delightful parent, what a courteous and engaging friend my Father would have been, and would pre-eminently have been to me, if it had not been for this stringent piety which ruined it all.
~ Edmund Gosse
One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.
~ Robert Englund
Time has ruined a lot of the way we eat and we approach food.
~ Mark Brand
Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
~ Beth Grant
The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.
~ Martin Yan
I was a fallow field ruined by brackish flood, but I would choose the wave over the wind, I would swamp your world with wreckage, I would hold fast to you, and you would be saved.
~ Ron Slate
How do we quantify the help needed to rebuild these ruined lives? The question is answered easily enough if we pose it not in the abstract but in relation to ourselves. To put ourselves in the place of these victims is to know that all the help in the world would not be enough. Sufficiency is not a concept that is applicable here; potentially there is no limit to the amount of relief that can be used.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Tonino and I went to look at a ruined church with a tree growing inside it. Beautiful. There is a peasant's house beside it. On the way back Tonino showed me a villa, on the outskirts of Rome, which has been abandoned because of ghosts. It looks amazing
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Then, once again, my charming brothers ruined everything.
~ Ann M. Martin
ANIENTED  (A'NIENTED)   adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing.
~ Samuel Johnson
He had almost fallen in with that part of humanity of which he was frequently mindful (he never forgot the hotel on lower Broadway), the part that did not get away with it—the lost, the outcast, the overcome, the effaced, the ruined.
~ Saul Bellow
We see it was the Lord's purpose to deliver nothing in his sacred oracles which we might not learn for edification. Therefore, instead of dwelling on superfluous matters, let it be sufficient for us briefly to hold, with regard to the nature of devils, that at their first creation they were the angels of God, but by revolting they both ruined themselves, and became the instruments of perdition to others.
~ John Calvin
We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.
~ Jonathan Agnew
I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.
~ W. Earl Brown
Then--then you mean I've ruined it all--that you don't love me any more? That's right.
~ Margaret Mitchell
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
~ Lorene Scafaria
But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time. I am a vampire. My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy.
~ Anne Rice
Being Irish, he was also possessed of a certain lethal charm, a ruined estate somewhere back in Ireland, and eyes the color of Lady Winnimere's world-famous emeralds. Add to that an almost sinful beauty of face framed by black curls, a tall, graceful body, and quite the most elegant hands in all of London, and Killoran, who disdained to use his title, was indeed a dangerously attractive member of society.
~ Anne Stuart
Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Have you no honor? No decency? No damn brains? You don't kill me with bullets. You just piss me off. And you just ruined my friggin' favorite coat. For that, you die. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure.
~ Louis MacNeice
Canterbury, despoiled of her goods
~ John Guy