Ruined Quotes - Page 18

• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Mean, Differences, Parent

  "Tamara Ecclestone: I'm just a normal girl who happens to be worth £3billion". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.

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• I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

  Brian Welch

  Lost Love, Kids, People

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• Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

  Bob Probert

  Hockey, Thinking, Games

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Chinese

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.

  Irene Hunt

  Rip, Two, Numbers

  Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.29, Penguin

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• Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

  William Safire

  Media, Choir, Used

  "Channeling" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2009.

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• He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

  Chanakya

  Men, Luck, Religion

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• A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Goodbye, Home

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.26, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

  William Penn

  Men, Giving, Voting

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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• Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

  Neil Gaiman

  Perfectly Good, Teeth, Arseholes

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• People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

  Vendela Vida

  People, Okay, Wells

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• I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Femme, Femme Fatale, Knows

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• I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.

  Johnny Thunders

  Eight, Years, Wife

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• Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny, Money, Dimes

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• I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  Olivia Colman

  Kids, Emotional, Surface

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• I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.

  Robert Pattinson

  Writing, Years, Giving

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Love Is, Two

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sea, Roots, Space

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• The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

  Martin Yan

  World, Ingredients, Dishes

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• He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Vision

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• As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

  Bruno Schulz

  Broken, House, Everyday

  Wojciech Chmurzyński, Bruno Schulz, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie (1995). “Bruno Schulz 1892-1942: katalog-pamiętnik wystawy "Bruno Schulz. Ad memoriam" w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie”

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• A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, Wild Roses, Roof

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.283

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• What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  And Love, New Life, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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