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We moralize among ruins. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. -- Richard Russo
it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them. -- Scott Westerfeld
I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations." -- Bill Engvall
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. -- George Washington
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. -- Oscar Wilde
You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan. -- John Flanagan
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star. -- Natalie Portman
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. -- John Lennon
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. -- Anselm Kiefer
Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing. -- Robert Harbison
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) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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 -- Tullian Tchividjian
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. -- Richard Burton
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Scott Westerfeld
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. -- J. B. Jackson
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. -- Barbara Cartland
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.. -- Dave Barry
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. -- Anselm Kiefer
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. -- King Hussein I
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. -- T. J. Jackson Lears
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. -- Franz Kafka
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. -- Charles Kuralt
Patriotism ruins history. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Politics ruins the character. -- Otto von Bismarck
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A man is a god in ruins. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. -- John Milton
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. -- Lord Byron
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. -- Gustave Flaubert
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. -- Warren Buffett
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. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Jacob Bronowski
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. -- Buenaventura Durruti
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. -- Elbridge Gerry
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. -- Taylor Swift
I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity. -- Olivia Wilde
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. -- Seneca the Younger
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. -- Ben Jonson
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. -- Joan Baez
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. -- Dennis Prager
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. -- Steven Pinker
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. -- Angela Carter
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. -- Cynthia Ozick
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. -- David Lynch
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. -- Kendrick Lamar
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. -- William Wells Brown
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. -- Gordon Neufeld
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. -- Tom Ford
Every reformation ruins somebody. -- Amelia B. Edwards
Idleness ruins the constitution -- Ovid
Despair ruins some, presumption many. -- Benjamin Franklin
Restraint never ruins one's health. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions. -- James Joyce
Bad company ruins good morals. -- Paul the Apostle
We live ruins amid ruins. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I detest war; it ruins conversation -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives. -- Brendan Jack
The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful. -- Mohsin Hamid
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. -- Thomas Merton
Defect in one's limb ruins a man. -- Chanakya
A man is a god in ruins. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My beautiful proof lies all in ruins. -- Georg Cantor
These fragments I have shored against my ruins -- T. S. Eliot
Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility. -- David Brooks
We come from ruins, but we're not ruined, -- Marshall Berman
Trample not on the ruins of a man. -- Charles Lamb
The ruins of time build mansions in eternity. -- William Blake
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty. -- Bryant McGill
As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins. -- Joseph Brodsky
Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight. -- Phyllis Diller
We are living even now among punishments and ruins. -- Wendell Berry
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. -- Joseph Joubert
You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. -- Kay Boyle
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. -- Maurice Blanchot
Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything. -- Statius
Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion. -- Stana Katic
Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. -- Rumi
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. -- John Fiske
Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. --
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. -- Coco Chanel
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. -- Victor Hugo
What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. -- Friedrich Schiller
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. -- Mark Hoppus
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. -- Seneca the Younger
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. -- Bruce Sterling
I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it. -- Carlos Pena, Jr.
Suspicion ruins the atmosphere of trust in a team and makes it ineffective -- Sunday Adelaja
War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins. -- Susan Sontag
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. -- Mason Cooley
Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation. -- Sidney Howard
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. -- Edith Wharton
Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become. -- Tucker Max
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life. -- Don Imus
Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive. -- Frederick Wiseman
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes. -- Laurel Lea
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. -- James Russell Lowell
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. -- George Santayana
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? -- Jean de La Fontaine
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? -- John Fowles
Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day. -- Kiera Cass
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. -- Dan Wells

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