Quotes about Ruins

We moralize among ruins. Votes: 3

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. Votes: 3

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them. Votes: 3

I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations." Votes: 3

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. Votes: 3

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Votes: 3

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan. Votes: 3

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star. Votes: 3

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. Votes: 3

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. Votes: 3

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing. Votes: 3

I'm not dead yet. It's all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero) Votes: 3

Southern novelist Walker Percy writes in Love in the Ruins, We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.6 Votes: 3

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Votes: 3

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. Votes: 3

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. Votes: 3

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform. Votes: 3

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. Votes: 3

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. Votes: 3

Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page. Votes: 3

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Votes: 3

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know. Votes: 3

Patriotism ruins history. Votes: 2

Politics ruins the character. Votes: 2

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. Votes: 2

A man is a god in ruins. Votes: 2

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. Votes: 2

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Votes: 2

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. Votes: 2

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Votes: 2

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Votes: 2

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Votes: 2

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Votes: 2

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. Votes: 2

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. Votes: 2

What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. Votes: 2

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. Votes: 1

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity. Votes: 1

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. Votes: 1

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Votes: 1

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. Votes: 1

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. Votes: 1

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. Votes: 1

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses. Votes: 1

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. Votes: 1

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist. Votes: 1

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. Votes: 1

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. Votes: 1

I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch. Votes: 1

Every reformation ruins somebody. Votes: 0

Idleness ruins the constitution Votes: 0

Despair ruins some, presumption many. Votes: 0

Restraint never ruins one's health. Votes: 0

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions. Votes: 0

Bad company ruins good morals. Votes: 0

We live ruins amid ruins. Votes: 0

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. Votes: 0

I detest war; it ruins conversation Votes: 0

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives. Votes: 0

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful. Votes: 0

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. Votes: 0

Defect in one's limb ruins a man. Votes: 0

A man is a god in ruins. Votes: 0

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins. Votes: 0

These fragments I have shored against my ruins Votes: 0

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. Votes: 0

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility. Votes: 0

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined, Votes: 0

Trample not on the ruins of a man. Votes: 0

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity. Votes: 0

Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty. Votes: 0

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. Votes: 0

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins. Votes: 0

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight. Votes: 0

We are living even now among punishments and ruins. Votes: 0

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. Votes: 0

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. Votes: 0

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. Votes: 0

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. Votes: 0

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything. Votes: 0

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion. Votes: 0

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins. Votes: 0

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. Votes: 0

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins Votes: 0

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. Votes: 0

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. Votes: 0

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier. Votes: 0

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. Votes: 0

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. Votes: 0

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. Votes: 0

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. Votes: 0

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. Votes: 0

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. Votes: 0

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. Votes: 0

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. Votes: 0

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. Votes: 0

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it. Votes: 0

Suspicion ruins the atmosphere of trust in a team and makes it ineffective Votes: 0

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins. Votes: 0

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. Votes: 0

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation. Votes: 0

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. Votes: 0

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become. Votes: 0

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life. Votes: 0

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! Votes: 0

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. Votes: 0

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. Votes: 0

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. Votes: 0

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes. Votes: 0

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk. Votes: 0

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. Votes: 0

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. Votes: 0

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? Votes: 0

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? Votes: 0

Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day. Votes: 0

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. Votes: 0

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. Votes: 0

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! Votes: 0

Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives. Votes: 0

Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health. Votes: 0

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect Votes: 0

Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you. Votes: 0

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! Votes: 0

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance. Votes: 0

Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits. Votes: 0

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. Votes: 0

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him Votes: 0

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins. Votes: 0

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins. Votes: 0

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time... Votes: 0

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass. Votes: 0

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. Votes: 0

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it Votes: 0

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. Votes: 0

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. Votes: 0

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. Votes: 0

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well. Votes: 0

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really. Votes: 0

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves. Votes: 0

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life. Votes: 0

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. Votes: 0

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. Votes: 0

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. Votes: 0

And I cried" for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. Votes: 0

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American. Votes: 0

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins. Votes: 0

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. Votes: 0

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. Votes: 0

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields. Votes: 0

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. Votes: 0

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. Votes: 0

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. Votes: 0

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved. Votes: 0

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money, Votes: 0

I think I'm dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it. Votes: 0

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history. Votes: 0

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. Votes: 0

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! Votes: 0

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror. Votes: 0

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny. Votes: 0

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. Votes: 0

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn. Votes: 0

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs. Votes: 0

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. Votes: 0

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins Votes: 0

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people. Votes: 0

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it. Votes: 0

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. Votes: 0

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. Votes: 0

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy. Votes: 0

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame. Votes: 0

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. Votes: 0

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. Votes: 0

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. Votes: 0

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. Votes: 0

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle. Votes: 0

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. Votes: 0

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins. Votes: 0

Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day. Votes: 0

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. Votes: 0

Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day. Votes: 0

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. Votes: 0

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. Votes: 0

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame. Votes: 0

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. Votes: 0

She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me. Votes: 0

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. Votes: 0

Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. Votes: 0

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. Votes: 0

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins. Votes: 0

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city. Votes: 0

Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber. Votes: 0

Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old. Votes: 0

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. Votes: 0

A single girlfriend can play an important role in success of your career but a bunch of girlfriends can seriously ruins your successful life. Votes: 0

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. Votes: 0

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. Votes: 0

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'. Votes: 0

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. Votes: 0

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. Votes: 0

Everyone make mistakes and you learn a lesson from them. But, sometimes just one mistake made in influence of something can ruins your whole life. Votes: 0

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility. Votes: 0

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart. Votes: 0

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles. Votes: 0

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making. Votes: 0

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. Votes: 0

Look past the garbage, over the trains, Under the ruins, through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me...where I fit in? Votes: 0

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins. Votes: 0

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me. Votes: 0

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow. Votes: 0

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. Votes: 0

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion. Votes: 0

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms. Votes: 0

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i. Votes: 0

He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron) Votes: 0

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity. Votes: 0

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents. Votes: 0

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed. Votes: 0

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. Votes: 0

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. Votes: 0

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Votes: 0

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope. Votes: 0

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories. Votes: 0

Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life. Votes: 0

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. Votes: 0

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra. Votes: 0

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building. Votes: 0

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones. Votes: 0

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins. Votes: 0

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins. Votes: 0

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. Votes: 0

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life. Votes: 0

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized. Votes: 0

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them. Votes: 0

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. Votes: 0

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children. Votes: 0

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects. Votes: 0

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. Votes: 0

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost Votes: 0

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. Votes: 0

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. Votes: 0

Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. Votes: 0

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives. Votes: 0

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral. Votes: 0

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone. Votes: 0

Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones. Votes: 0

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky. Votes: 0

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication Votes: 0

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. Votes: 0

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best. Votes: 0

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins. Votes: 0

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material. Votes: 0

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. Votes: 0

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build. Votes: 0

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film. Votes: 0

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life. Votes: 0

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. Votes: 0

We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins. Votes: 0

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience"¦ many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint. Votes: 0

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it. Votes: 0

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Votes: 0

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it. Votes: 0

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree. Votes: 0

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons. Votes: 0

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. Votes: 0

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays. Votes: 0

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket. Votes: 0

I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket. Votes: 0

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I. Votes: 0

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical. Votes: 0

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about. Votes: 0

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it. Votes: 0

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago. Votes: 0

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency. Votes: 0