Ruins Quotes - Page 20

• My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Country, People, Style

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

  Jon Ronson

  Religious, Political, Economy

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.

  Andrew Gilligan

  Iraq, Economy, Electricity

  "Little chance country's nightmare will end soon". www.standard.co.uk. February 14, 2005.

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• Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Ideas, Debris, Symbols

  "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Grace, Has Beens

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.14, SCM Press

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• Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

  Leopold von Ranke

  Humans

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• The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality-who will press toward his object while death is impending over him-who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Men, Sublime, Energy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 239, 1895.

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• Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

  Kevin R. Stone

  Cancer, Numbers, Looks

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• I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

  Lindy West

  Broken Heart, Believe, Bad Relationship

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• I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems like my whole life has come into being in the last twenty-four hours. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Lasts

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• If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dream, Book, Character

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Baby, Blessed, Names

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “The Birds’ Christmas Carol (With Original Illustrations): Children’s Classic”, p.6, e-artnow

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• Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

  Ron Suskind

  Kids, Ghetto, Drug

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

  Bill Bonner

  Running, Adversity, Men

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• The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Creating, Mind

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• There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Sight, Dear

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• Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

  Doug Wead

  Country, Choices, Want

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• It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

  Peter Mayle

  Moving, Laughing, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 25, 2015

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• How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Ironic, Might, Were Meant To Be

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• All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future--a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life--is gone. [p. 149]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Falling In Love, Loss, Important Relationships

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Writing, Thinking, Secret

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• Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Three, Religious Education

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1995). “Spiritual Parenting”, Whitaker Distribution

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• If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be.
  But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy.
  At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Memories, Heart

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• If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

  Justus von Liebig

  Advice, Want, Study

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• I detest war; it ruins conversation

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  War, Political, Conversation

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