Ruined Quotes - Page 6

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

Eckhart Tolle

Example, Stories, Limits

"A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

Catherine Helen Spence

Wisdom, Australia, States

Catherine Helen Spence (1907). “State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments”

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Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pain, Failure, Adversity

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Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

Pablo Neruda

War, Dark, Kissing

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

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Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

Sam Storms

Son, Grace, Soul

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It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

Josiah Warren

Insecurity, Principles, Ruins

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Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

Leigh Bardugo

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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Otto Dix

Dream, Men, Years

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Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.

Paul Samuelson

Tiny, Twenties, Investing

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Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

Charles Bukowski

Men, Different, Faces

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No girl was ever ruined by a book.

Jimmy Walker

Girl, Book

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No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

Winston Churchill

Horse, Grief, Taken

Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.

Philip Jones Griffiths

Two, Would Be, Venture

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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

Finest, Emperor, Plans

'Mutter Courage' (1939) sc. 6

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.

Wil Wheaton

Stars, War, Nerd

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No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

Trade, Nations

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Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.

Thomas Sowell

Country, Ideas, Political

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When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

Clint Eastwood

Regret, Musician, Looks

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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

Brendan Behan

Drinking, People

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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

Will Rogers

Watches, Looks, Gone

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.199, Rowman & Littlefield

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If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.

Richard Ford

Regret, Lying, Faces

Richard Ford (2010). “The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)”, p.10, Vintage

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If your wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

Funny, Humor, Redneck

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No periods. If you sneeze, the carpet's ruined.

Jim Norton

Funny, Humor, Periods

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I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.

Joaquin Phoenix

Good Life, Opportunity, People

Source: dishmag.com

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I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.

Daniel Handler

Children, Drinking, Bridges

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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