Ruins Quotes - Page 39

• She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wine, Glasses, Talent

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Sometimes I think there’s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there’s an angel—or, more likely, a demon—assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Angel, Thinking, Looks

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• Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wrath, Together, Dawn

  "Fictional character: Theoden". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Long, Hatred, Tiny

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.19, Macmillan

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• When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

  Charles Baxter

  Broken Heart, Jobs, Lying

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

  James Frey

  Eye, Thinking, Self

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

  Carl Sagan

  Earth, Ifs

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• If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Control Of Your Life, Giving, Serious

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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• How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

  Veronica Roth

  Simple, Decision, Damage

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• This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

  William Wilberforce

  Soul, Solitude, Body

  Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.207

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• That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

  Tessa Dare

  Hands, Scotland, Honor

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• Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original.

  Jennifer Estep

  Suits, Said, Fine

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Widow's Web”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

  Sylvia Day

  Spring, Lying, Waiting

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.234, Penguin

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• I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Alive, Want, Might

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many kings can ruin an army

  Homer

  Leadership, Kings, Army

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• Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, Skeletons, Dust

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• ‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.

  Ian Mortimer

  Country, Mean, Past

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• With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

  Alan Moore

  Practice, Ideas, Growth

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• But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

  Paula McLain

  Fighting, Cities, Trying

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.356, Ballantine Books

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• Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Black Spring".

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• There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

  Sylvia Day

  Spring, Lying, Waiting

  Sylvia Day (2014). “Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1-4”, p.235, Penguin

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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

  Gayle Forman

  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Tree, Leader

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• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Courage, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Names, Want, Pleasant Surprises

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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