Ruins Quotes - Page 33

• Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

  Shana Alexander

  Moving, Light, Rome

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

  Eddie Vedder

  Cocky, Competition, Healthy

  Interview with Carrie Brownstein, www.believermag.com. June 2004.

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• Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Light, Tree, Hills

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.141, Oxford University Press

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• Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Happiness, Feet, Castles

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• Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Women, Fancy, Youth

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• Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Loss, Men, Order

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

  Margaret Halsey

  Jobs, Creative, Failing

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

  Agnes Smedley

  Money, Pain, Believe

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• From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spring, Rebirth, Born Again

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• One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

  Myrtle Reed

  Guests, Dinner, Salad

  Myrtle Reed (1909). “Old Rose and Silver”

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• To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Sweet, Travel, Interesting

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• Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

  Statius

  Giving, Delay, Permit

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• What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.

  Oswald Pohl

  War, Navy, Germany

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Mean, Broken, Fine

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Trying, Energy

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Principles, Salvation

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• Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

  Francois Rabelais

  God, Wisdom, Evil

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• All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humility, Long, Lasts

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• The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wise, Children, Mean

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• I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Civilization, America

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• I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, People, Feels

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• He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Advancement, Waste, Causes

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• Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fall, Should Have, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

  St. Jerome

  Rain, Fall, Earth

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• You know that the nucleus of a time is not
  The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
  Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
  As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
  Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
  He shares the confusions of intelligence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Confusion, Poetry, Effort

  Wallace Stevens (1964). “the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”

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