Ruin Quotes

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.