Ruined Quotes - Page 17

• If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

  Gil Kane

  Quality, Facts, Ifs

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• Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

  Jean Lorrain

  Lust, Vices, Wrecks

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• Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

  Warren Zevon

  Rejection

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• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, Snakes, Media

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• 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

  Thinking, Parent, Coke

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• The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.

  Nigel Cole

  Nice, Insane, Directors

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• You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

  Sally Mann

  Lenses, Kind

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• 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.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Forgiveness, Want, Littles

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• England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Government, England, Parliament

  "Famous sayings and their authors". Book by Edward Latham, 1906.

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• My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Stupidity, Grandfather

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• I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

  Pericles

  Country, Greatness, Men

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• Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

  Chevy Chase

  Done, Film

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• When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

  Leslie Caron

  Careers, Would Be, Lilies

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• The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

  Calvin Trillin

  Brother, President, Citizens

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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

  Death, Pain, Loss

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press

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• Girls, you know it's all just a game to them, relationships. Just go around stomping on everyone.... I mean, look at this poor guy in the background with his collar up. You know he's just gonna get ruined by women.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Girl, Mean

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• Pride ruined the angels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.382, Bantam Classics

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• 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

  Relationship, Friendship Love, Misery

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• A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Causes

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• Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

  Joseph Furphy

  Wisdom, Fate, Alternatives

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• Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
  Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
  Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
  If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Rap, Skills, Hip Hop

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• Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

  Alexander Pope

  Arrogance, Quality, Praise

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• ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

  Plato

  Opportunity, Government, Law

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• Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

  Wes Borland

  Taken, Aspect

  "Music ruined Wes Borland's Life, so he's formed a new band", www.mtv.com. November 18, 2005.

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• Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

  Mona Simpson

  People, Parent, Drug

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