Ruined Quotes - Page 22

• We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.

  Sonny Barger

  Jail, People, Drug

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• In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talking, America, Listening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.215, Penguin

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• Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, Degrees, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.44

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• The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Father, Years

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.35, InterVarsity Press

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• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Hurt, Pain

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• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Texas

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• This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Adventure, Vegas, Hair

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• But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

  Sarah MacLean

  Heart, Names, Long

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• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Gold, Possession

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

  Leigh Hunt

  Eye, Laughing, Littles

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.149

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• 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

  Focus, Stories, Animation

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• Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doe, Worship, Christ

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