Ruins Quotes - Page 35

• Jesus has no tenderness toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in service to Him. If God brings to your mind a vese which hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt.

  Andy Murray

  Jesus, Hurt, Men

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• What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Men, Saws

  "Aeneis (Aeneid)". Poem by Virgil (Book II, line 130), 29-19 BC.

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• Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Government, Hands

  Daniel WEBSTER (1834). “Speech ... on moving for leave to introduce a bill to continue the bank of the United States for six years delivered in the Senate ... March 18, 1834”, p.15

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• The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Rich, Economics

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.11, conclusion.

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• Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

  Michael Johnson

  Eye, Quality, Tongue

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• Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.

  Daniel Abraham

  Men, Innocent Man, Games

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• Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

  John Gay

  Sweet, Gun, Men

  John Gay (1835). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.32

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• Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

  Martha Beck

  Conspiracy, Weary, Trough

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• Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

  John Piper

  Christian, Important, Motive

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.50, B&H Publishing Group

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• Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

  Bob Richards

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Disease, Christ, Salvation

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended”, p.307

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• Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

  Edward Young

  Society, Finals, Creation

  Edward Young (1820). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.271

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• That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

  John Webster

  Men, Belief, Checks

  John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster

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• Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

  Douglas Kennedy

  People, Embrace, Veneer

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• I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

  John Webster

  Feet, Ancient, Reverends

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.97

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• Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

  David Maraniss

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Mean

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.

  Bernie Sanders

  Powerful, Wall, Illegal Activities

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

  Geena Davis

  Archery, Perfect, Battle

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can really ruin things, it can destroy a band. So for me and Burt to approach it as just two guys it makes things a lot easier. This may sound selfish but it was less people we had to share our ideas with so there was less interference.

  Dino Cazares

  Selfish, Ideas, Two

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, Movies In General, Should Have

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Important, Records, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Ice will ruin the tea. Waters it down. You can always get ice, or carry your ice in an ice container. You don't want to put it in your tea, it'll water it down.

  Si Robertson

  Ice, Water, Tea

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The left has been able to destroy conservatives, dispatch conservatives, to ruin conservatives simply on the basis of accusing them or illustrating them supposedly violating political correctness, by virtue of exposing what they think or say.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Political, Able

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  War, Democracy, East

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build permanent arrangements in which peace between European countries is secured, freedom is secured, and growing prosperity. And that's what we have done over the last 70 years.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Country, War, Fighting

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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