Ruins Quotes - Page 15

• It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Abstinence, Young

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• Success will ruin your life.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.

  Aisha Tyler

  Fun, Party, Drinking

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• As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Groups, Als

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• Dating black women will ruin your life

  Terrence Howard

  Dating, Black, Black Women

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• If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on

  Usher

  Moving, Shoes, Missing

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• Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Reality, Fantasy, Knows

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• Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

  Stana Katic

  Men, Illusion, Muse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, College, Forever

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.254, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Destiny, Agony, Profound

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• If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That's they way I feel.

  Kasey Kahne

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

  Bruno Freschi

  University, Elegant

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

  Laozi

  Future, Vision, Trying

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• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Land

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

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• It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Mother, Perseverance, Buddhist

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Soul, World, Common

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• It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Evil, Gold

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• Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.

  George Washington

  Running, Inheritance, Littles

  George Washington (1872). “Words of Washington”, p.106

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• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Technology

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• In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

  Walter Benjamin

  Bourgeoisie, Commodity, Economy

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Would Be, World

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lasting Happiness, Boredom, Balance

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

  Thom Yorke

  Car, Chocolate, Made

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