Ruins Quotes - Page 32

• Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.

  Kim Stolz

  Media, Way, Mood

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

  Winston Churchill

  Army, Germany, Tables

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• Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Healthy, Waste, Misery

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

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• When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

  Tony Evans

  Yesterday, Progress, Weight

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2014

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• The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.

  Kay Arthur

  Hurt, Jesus, Disappointment

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• What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Paul Watson

  Hero, Soul, Needs

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• History affords us many instances of the ruin of states,
  by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and
  genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one
  part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, People, Political

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• Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

  T. J. Jackson Lears

  Challenges, Log Cabins, Fiction

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• While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Marijuana, Years, America

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• Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

  J. B. MacKinnon

  Beautiful, Temples

  J.B. MacKinnon (2013). “The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Morning, War, Fate

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• But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Independent, Men, Convince Us

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Rights

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• A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

  Tacitus

  Men, Work Out, Becoming

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• The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Manners, States, Contempt

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244

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• Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Crush, Hate

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.39

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• There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, Ambition, Government

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.3

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• It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

  Edmund Burke

  Wicked, Rivals, Politician

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

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• Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

  Edmund Waller

  Art, War, Age

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.190

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• Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

  John Ruskin

  Hurt, Fall, Heart

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.14

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• All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

  Rebecca West

  Smell, Differences, Degrees

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

  Hesiod

  Struggle, Procrastination, Men

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• I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

  Andrew Jackson

  Receiving, Paper, Trash

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• It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Ideas, Twenties

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.433

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• Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reconstruction, Antiquity

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