Ruins Quotes - Page 16

• All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Race, Ignorant

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• Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Should, Recalls

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Irritated, Appetite

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, People, Judging

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• The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Firsts

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• The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Ideas, Catholic, Age

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• Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

  John Flavel

  Christian, People, Evil

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

  Angela Carter

  Dad, Father, Aeneas

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Powerful, Character

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• A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

  Tom Stoppard

  Education, Men, Genuine Love

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Invention of Love”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse of my being. I did not care anymore for living or dying. I was alone in my distress and desolation. But as I sat sadly on the ground, The sun reached out his hand to me and touched my face. And so my healing began.

  Marjorie Pizer

  Healing, Hands, Funeral

  Marjorie Pizer (2014). “To You the Living”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, House, World

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.365

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• The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Heart, Self, Cafeteria

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• Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!

  Zhuangzi

  Running, Eye, Heart

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• The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dog, Drinking, Men

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• Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  "Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,

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• Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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• Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

  Thales

  Good Life, Dogma, Precursor

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• Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Vegetables, Years

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

  Kimberly Johnson

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

  Hesiod

  Procrastination, Men, Hands

  Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Good Life

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.12, Penguin

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• All right, stop whatcha doin, cause I'm about to ruin
  The image and the style that you're used to.

  Shock G

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

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• Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

  Grandmaster Caz

  Rap, Past, Hip Hop

  "South Bronx Subway Rap". Song by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein, 1983.

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