Ruins Quotes - Page 38

• When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Trying, Apologizing, Effects

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• ...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Regret, Moments

  "Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14 & 21, 2011.

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• The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Stupid, Cities, People

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

  Saul Bellow

  Purpose, Seems

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• Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  Bleeding, Rooms, Cigarette

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• And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

  Aaron Allston

  Home, Careers, Mind

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• Wow,” Kylie muttered, and grinned. “Yeah, wow.” Della leaned in closer. “I think Perry just grew a pair.” Kylie bit down on her lip to keep from laughing. “If this was a movie, there would be some music playing in the background.” “I could sing,” Della chuckled. “And ruin it,” Kylie teased back. “I’ve heard you singing in the shower.” Both grinning, they looked back at the kissing couple.

  C.C. Hunter

  Couple, Kissing, Thinking

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.69, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Trying, Would Be, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fall

  Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So Love’s inflamèd shaft or brand May kill as soon as Death’s cold hand; Except Love’s fires the virtue have To fight the frost out of the grave.

  Ben Jonson

  Fall, Heart, Mean

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The magnetic lady: or, humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepherd: or, a tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Entertainments, &c”, p.266

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• Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Life Is, Seems

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “So Much Closer”, p.60, Scholastic UK

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• I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Age, Breakfast, Josie

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• Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mourning, Mindfulness, Today

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sea, Storm, Here And There

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Enemy, Poison

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.11, Macmillan

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• But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams. It was one thing to push it to this point. It is another to let go forever. Because he knows Clary, and if she goes now, she will not ever come back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Letting Go, Dream, Doors

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• I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Numbers, Trying

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• Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Knowing, Littles, Opinion

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• It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

  John Green

  Get Better, Trying, Shows

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.147, Penguin

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• I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

  Daniel Handler

  Night, Long Nights, Long

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.54, Egmont UK

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• Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Sweet, Lying

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• Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Shadow Of Death, Light, Joy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

  John Green

  Children, Distance, Kids

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• Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

  Jon Stewart

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, Scratches

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