After so many maneuvers and a great many toils the opera is now ruined. — Antonio Vivaldi
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. — David Hume
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson
Ruin and recovering are both from within. — Epictetus
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. — Michael Chabon
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. — Doris Lessing
One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones — Finn Juhl
Short Ruining It Quotes
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. — Rumi
Destroy the family, you destroy the country. — Unknown Author
It's the things we love most that destroy us. — Donald Sutherland
A man is a god in ruins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid
Hello new world, how’s it going? I’m here to wreck everything. — Markiplier
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Top 10 Ruining It Quotes
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
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
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
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it. — Robert E. Lee
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity. — Nicolaus Copernicus
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. — Jose Rizal
Reality has its own power — you can turn your back on it, but it will find you in the end, and your inability to cope with it will be your ruin. — 50 Cent
You could also argue that the risk of ruin is so large—you can’t come back from it—that we’re hardwired to be pessimists. — Naval Ravikant
I don’t have a preconception of a perfect day, because if I did, then it would ruin the day that I was living. — Naval Ravikant
Ruining It Image Quotes
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
Ruining Relationships Quotes
Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara — Charlotte Tilbury
Social media has ruined a whole generation's expectations of relationships. It has made 'perfect' look normal, so now good, real relationships with all their challenges feel disposable. — Steven Bartlett
You need to have a life. Have fun. Then ruin it by having a serious relationship — Kyle
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you. — Richard Simmons
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that. — Gayle Forman
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it. — Moran Atias
I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives. — Lindy West
Ruining A Good Thing Quotes
Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits. — Yahtzee Croshaw
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
The only thing that can ruin a good day is people. — Ernest Hemingway
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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
You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing. — Pia Zadora
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
Ruining Everything Quotes
... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant
Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness. — Judah Smith
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. — D. H. Lawrence
Don't let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. — C. S. Lewis
It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends. — Kirstie Alley
Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. — Sayings
Lets not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden. — Henry Mitchell
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now. — Eminem
From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again. — Isabelle Eberhardt
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. — Alfred Jarry
Don't give other people permission to ruin your day.
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. — William Wilberforce
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates. — Benjamin Franklin
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. — Theodore Roosevelt
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. — Gustave Flaubert
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins. — Savitri Devi
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away. — Ted Rall
We do a lot of work to try to make sure people who we are using as people in the show don't know who we are, because that ruins it. — Joe Gatto
Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. — Rumi
Global bonds are collapsing in their fiat currencies, which are collapsing against the dollar, which is fast losing purchasing power. It will be months & years before the average fiat user realizes just how much they're getting ruined financially. The new normal is poverty. — Saifedean Ammous
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. — James Clear
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
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. — Patrick Henry
I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know what's even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there. — Evan Peters
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing. — Robert Southwell
The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than 1.8 million German homes. Of the 18.2 million men who had served in the German army, navy, Luftwaffe, and the Waffen-SS, a total of 5.3 million had been killed. Sixty-one countries had been drawn into a war Germany started. Some 50 million people were dead. The Third Reich was no more. — Annie Jacobsen
Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. — Hermann Hesse
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
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. — M. R. James
Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand. — Pietro Metastasio
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. — Alexander Lukashenko
Social media hasn't ruined us—it's just revealed how awful we always were. — Mark Manson
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy. — Sigmar Gabriel
I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin. — Edmund Burke
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. — James Clear
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. — Buenaventura Durruti
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow. — Saint Timothy
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. — John Lennon
You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined. — Lee Unkrich
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. — Dmitri Shostakovich
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice. — George Washington
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them. — Orhan Pamuk
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