Top Ruins Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Ruins quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kiera Cass
Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.
- Kiera Cass
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Image of Seneca the Younger
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Bruce Sterling
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
- Bruce Sterling
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Image of Marissa Meyer
Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
- Marissa Meyer
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Image of Dan Wells
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
- Dan Wells
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Image of Haven Kimmel
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
- Haven Kimmel
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Image of Jonathan Swift
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Ovid
Idleness ruins the constitution
- Ovid
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Image of Keith Johnstone
The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.
- Keith Johnstone
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Image of James de la Vega
Don't let the idiots ruin your day.
- James de la Vega
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Image of David Pogue
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.
- David Pogue
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Image of Leopold von Ranke
Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
- Leopold von Ranke
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Image of Chang-Rae Lee
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
- Chang-Rae Lee
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Image of Paul the Apostle
Bad company ruins good morals.
- Paul the Apostle
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Image of Bruno Freschi
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin
- Bruno Freschi
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Image of 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.
- Anne Hutchinson
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Image of Bill Bonner
The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
- Bill Bonner
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Image of Marshall Berman
We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.
- Marshall Berman
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Image of Kweisi Mfume
Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.
- Kweisi Mfume
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Image of Lynn Emanuel
I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.
- Lynn Emanuel
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Image of Susanna Rowson
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
- Susanna Rowson
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Image of Travis Hafner
I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.
- Travis Hafner
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Image of Kevin Biegel
No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.
- Kevin Biegel
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Image of Markus Zusak
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
- Markus Zusak
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Image of Katy Evans
It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.
- Katy Evans
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Image of James Howard Kunstler
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made of particle board, vinyl siding, and stapled-on trim. A lot of suburbia will simply become the slums of the future. Most of the rest will be salvage or ruins.
- James Howard Kunstler
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Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Image of J. D. Salinger
The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding
- J. D. Salinger
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Image of Walter Benjamin
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
- Walter Benjamin
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Image of Brandon Sanderson
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.
- Brandon Sanderson
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Image of Tennessee Williams
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
- Tennessee Williams
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Image of Henry Rollins
You can still function as a living ruin.
- Henry Rollins
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Image of Joseph Addison
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.
- Joseph Addison
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Image of Mary Ann Shaffer
This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
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Image of David Brooks
Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.
- David Brooks
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Image of Susane Colasanti
Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.
- Susane Colasanti
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Image of Beverly Sills
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
- Beverly Sills
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Image of Stephenie Meyer
Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.
- Stephenie Meyer
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Image of Saadi
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
- Saadi
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Image of Jennifer Estep
Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original.
- Jennifer Estep
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Image of Martha Beck
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
- Martha Beck
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Image of Bruce Sterling
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
- Bruce Sterling
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Image of Saul Bellow
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
- Saul Bellow
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of John Henrik Clarke
The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
- John Henrik Clarke
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Image of Confucius
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
- Confucius
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Image of Don DeLillo
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
- Don DeLillo
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Image of Michael Ende
For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.
- Michael Ende
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Image of Epictetus
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
- Epictetus
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