Ruins Quotes - Page 34

• [N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Prosperity, Taxpayers

  Herbert Hoover, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1934). “The state papers and other public writings of Herbert Hoover”

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• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Reflecting Upon, Misery

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• If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Sorrow, Cottages

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.24

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• The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn’t do, an action they did or didn’t support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.

  Peggy Noonan

  Careers, Support, Political

  "The Era of Metadata". blogs.wsj.com. June 8, 2013.

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

  David Hume

  World, Littles, Affection

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.

  Octavio Paz

  Spiritual, Art, Museums

  Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

  Georges Pompidou

  Gambling, Three, Calling

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• No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

  Franz Grillparzer

  War, Cutting, Knives

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

  Sue Sanders

  Business, Failure, Waiting

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• Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

  Eglantyne Jebb

  Leadership, Children, Generations

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• You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.

  Griffin Jay

  Believe, Skulls, People

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• If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

  Austin Carlile

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing
  can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light.

  Sven Nykvist

  Light, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Rose, Sphinx

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Hope, Light

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.555, Delphi Classics

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• It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Play

  "Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Robert De Niro/Destiny's Child". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

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• I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Vacation

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 28, 2013

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• It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it. It's great to have your editor tell what her suggestions and ideas for the story are. It's great to explain to your editor why her ideas and suggestions are bizarre and to ask her why is she trying to ruin my story.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Editors, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Country, Men

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• Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Food, Names, Soup

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

  Jane Goldman

  Thinking, Magic, Fans

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Land, Smoking

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• The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

  Francis Bacon

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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