Quotes about ruins
our-love ruins toil
Alexander Pushkin The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Neil Marshall Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
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probably until mid-October or maybe a little bit later, depending on the frost. When the frost comes, it kind of ruins the market for us.
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P. J. O'Rourke Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
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James Howard Kunstler The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
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Oil addiction can happen to anyone. For too long people have not faced up to their addiction and the consequences are now obvious. Your oil addition not only ruins your life and the life of your families, but the lives of most of the world's inhabitants.
crumbling ruins
P. J. O'Rourke Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
ruins
David Lee Anything that ruins our sovereignty is out of the question.
build immortal loss mortal ruins time
William Blake Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
francisco hits ruins san tomorrow
Think about it. The 'Big One' hits San Francisco tomorrow and ruins most of the housing. Oakland is going to be busy, right?
good leadership ruins seen stuff wonderful
Pat Williams With leadership comes some wonderful perks. But that good stuff ruins more leaders than anything I've seen in my life. Without character, folks, we can't lead.
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Pankaj Mishra The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
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Simon Schama The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
time taught ruins
William Shakespeare Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
cities way ruins
William Shakespeare That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
love strong ruins
William Shakespeare And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater
scandal ruins
Anton Chekhov It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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Rescuers are hoping that the majority of people trapped in the ruins can be brought out alive.
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When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
dark ruins standing
Chuck Palahniuk Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
wine glasses ruins
Chuck Palahniuk She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
ideas ruins debris
Anselm Kiefer Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
children house ruins
Anselm Kiefer As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
order people ruins
Andre Maurois It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
ruins maids belief
Ambrose Bierce RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
people ruins married
Alicia Keys A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.
ruins states gods-will
Anne Hutchinson Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.
men ruins finals
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
thinking ruins too-much
Clint Eastwood Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
space littles ruins
David Lynch Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
ruins virtue profession
Confucius Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.