Quotation Explorer - 'Ruin'

Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything. - Beverly Donofrio
If there is to be any hope for the world, indeed if you really want to find satisfaction and happiness in your life, you must regard the return you will receive as a secondary consideration, if a consideration at all ……seek money first and you will ruin your land, or betray your profession… - Sir James Darling
Do not let your past insecurities ruin your future victories. - Jeffrey Fry
A single note is enough to ruin the entire composition. - Shihab Kazi
Let not pain ruin you. Make it a motivation for you to change and live a new life, instead. - Val Irvin Mabayo
The Words 2012, one world is ruin and one new world is build. One twisted pictures, one couple which loved each other... just their relationship dies... And another person just steal somebody's life and then he finds the truth... - Deyth Banger
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. - Jane Austen
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. - Tiffany Madison
Sports has no bounds, no race, no religion, no caste and no creed. Keep out all this from sports. Sports are pure joy, do not ruin with your ignorance - Sammy Toora
We all are travelers traveling on a very big spaceship called Earth. Let's not ruin the engines of our very own spaceship in the name of development. - Mohith Agadi
Don't let anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses ruin your life, be brave and face the day ahead of you - Raven San Jose
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life. - Timothy J. Keller
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch.
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all. - Benito Mussolini
Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own. - Daniel Webster
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. - Bertrand Russell
When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song. - Kyle Morton
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson
I am going to open myself up to all that is superior in the world and beyond and I am going to spend time trying to take delight in things! Not finding ruin in them! If the ruin of you is what you look for, the ruin of you is what you are going to find! - C. JoyBell C.
word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in your past, you're doing at this time, and you're gonna do in the future - A. Vaidyanathan
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act. - Kenneth Rexroth
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Benjamin Franklin
He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. - Cornelius Tacitus
To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin; though we shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. - C.S. Lewis
I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name. - Carlos Wallace
We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars) - Kristina Riggle
If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry.{Liebig's advice to .} Justus von Liebig - August Kekulé
Too many kings can ruin an army - Homer
Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones. - Oscar Wilde
I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that! - Mignon' Talise Padilla
Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. - Anonymous
Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. - Steven J. Carroll
When you care for someone, you don't ruin their life! - Gaelen Foley
If I was into girls, I'd do you, I tell him honestly. He leans forward conspiratorially. Psst, I'll let you in on a secret Fred, he glances sheepishly from side to side. I actually have a cock. Don't tell anyone, it would ruin my reputation. But feel free to do me any time you want. - L.H. Cosway
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.
One day can make your life, one day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that can change everything.
They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Hey, GreenHollyWood ruin my vision. I don't want to be gay... because what's shown in Mr.Robot it's geysish, mother fucker! - Deyth Banger
I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth. - Nikki Rowe
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. - William Shakespeare
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin! - Joseph Warren
It's really hard to deal with a narrow-minded people that have a limited sphere of thinking, what ever you tell him/herwill be twisted into falsehood, the truth will be lost and will ruin everything. - Bradley B. Dalina
Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future. - Audrey Phillips
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. - Mark Twain
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...! - Jalaluddin Rumi
Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted. - Nael Gharzeddine
If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries. - Cicely Hamilton
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. - Albert Einstein
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime. - Vincent Van Gogh
If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening. - Shannon L. Alder
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.
Things you Do to live a Happy life, shouldn't ruin others'. - Mohith Agadi
A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within. - Emily Dickinson
Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile. - Steven Erikson
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner
Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us. - Kamand Kojouri
Political problems ruin meals. Let it be known as Eric’s Law of Lunch henceforth. - Garon Whited
An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people. - Ingrid
Don't let your past cloud your judgement for the things that are happening in the present. Past is nothing but a distant memory. Fear of something that has happened in the past will ruin your present happiness. - Ashbeel Roy
Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride. - Zeeshan Ahmed
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents. - John Milton
Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that. - Shannon L. Alder
Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes
Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't let little things ruin your day. - CR Risk Advisory
A kiss may ruin a human life - Oscar Wilde
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. - Samuel Adams
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. - Berenice Abbott
More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos. - Leonard Seet
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. - C.S. Lewis
You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you. - Epictetus
Words will only ruin you, if you allow them. - Anthony Liccione
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes
What is suspicion? It is a tool to ruin one’s own Soul. - Dada Bhagwan
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. - Edward Abbey
Don't ruin a relationship, by giving it a name.A potential lover. A lover of the present and An ace of the past.These months, years and ages, might just forget the memory And remember the terms you used to file them in a draft. - Shillpi S Banerrji
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. - Edward Abbey
When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day. - Jay Wickre
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. - Confucius
He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh... - Larry Correia
You are unique in this universe like everyone else so why is this competition it'll ruin your life .. start living here and now with just your own self nd make your life more and more beautiful - jagvirji
Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries. - Steve Goodier
I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies. - Maria Semple
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. - G. K. Chesterton
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