Ruins Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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

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

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.

We moralize among ruins.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.