Ruins Quotes - Page 40

• I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Thinking, Singing

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• If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Perfect, Suicide Note, Manage

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• I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Night, Wind, Forever

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• Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Memories, Men, Guarantees

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• Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

  Nick Dear

  Hate, Lying, Skills

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• This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

  Maxim Gorky

  Long, People, Advantage

  Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.20, Booklassic

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• Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Dark, Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.810, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Opportunity

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam". Book by Abdul Kalam, Aruṇ Tivāri, p. 140, 1999.

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• It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

  Dan Wells

  Running, Car, Use

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• how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that means we're inconsolable. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.

  Richard Siken

  Mean, Apples, Light

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• I don’t know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit.” “I— I figured it’d be a shame to ruin your pretty face,” I stammered.

  Richelle Mead

  Pepper Spray, Sage, Lines

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.

  Perry Moore

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Kind

  Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion

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• It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

  Katy Evans

  Feels, Preparing

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• Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

  Toni Morrison

  Age, Rich, Hungry

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn’t seem all that daunting. She’s the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one—all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever—I know it’s still a long shot. Life ruins everything.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Eye, Simple

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

  William Shatner

  Success, Thinking, Careers

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• We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

  Al Gore

  This Generation, Generations, Done

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• We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Past, Racism

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• Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

  Pope Pius XII

  Hate, Party, Passion

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• People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Clever, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

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• Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Blessing, Land, Water

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• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

  Stephen Crane

  Wisdom, Children, Wall

  Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

  William E. Rees

  Inspiring, Easter, Environment

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• Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, War, Government

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• Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Life, Art, Doors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black

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