Ruins Quotes - Page 21

• If you do your "homework" well you can be sure you'll feel more relaxed. Make sure you have a walk or rest before the game because the most important thing is to be focused during the game itself! If you get tired by preparation you won't have enough energy left for the whole game, and we all know that a single blunder can ruin all the work done beforehand!

  Judit Polgar

  Mistake, Tired, Games

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• Ruin still used Reen's voice-it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing...it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Reflection, Voice, Used

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1857, Macmillan

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• A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

  William Blake

  Dog, Robin Redbreast, States

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 9 (ca. 1803)

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• Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Circles, Trying

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• It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

  John Green

  Eye, Thinking, Cities

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Political, Immigration

  Speech in New York, 12 October 1915, in 'Works', Memorial edition (1925) vol. 20, p. 457

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• Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Crush, Party, Voting

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.281

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• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  George Washington

  Men, Evil, Brave

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.436

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• Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Morning, War, Lying

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• He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Victory

  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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• We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

  James Inhofe

  Should Have, Environmental, Earth

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• We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Drug, Guilt

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• There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Men, Discipline

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Atmosphere, Religion

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• Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

  Bob Hope

  Careers, Dying, One Line

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• ...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

  Russell Kirk

  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Personality, Arbitrary

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• Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Trying, Poison

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• Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

  Dennis Prager

  Expectations, Chance

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• Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

  Rumi

  Water, Support, Boat

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.228, Shambhala Publications

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• It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

  Che Guevara

  Army, Revolution, Republican

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• The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

  George MacDonald

  Teaching, Men, Essence

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.6149, e-artnow

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Fall

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• Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

  Beverly Sills

  Evening, Whole

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