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Ruins Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger Fall Ruins Like Those Which

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

George Santayana

Time Optimism Evil Existence Ruins

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Detroit Rome Industrial Ruins Like

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

Book Talking Sex Write Next Ruins

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

Power Liberty Ruins Most Arbitrary

Politics ruins the character.

Otto von Bismarck

Character Politics Ruins

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Years May Ruins State Hour Scare

A man is a god in ruins.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Marriage Man More Expensive Ruins

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Ruins Crumbling Everywhere Orthodox

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

History Sugar Over Abandoned Ruins

It is useless to live on burned ruins.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Live Useless Ruins Burned

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

Insecurity Think Relationships Ruins

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Me Right Ordinary Ruins Disciples

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Christopher Lasch

Marriage Improvement Old Out Ruins

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Person May Ruins Prudent Who State

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

Hate Meeting Because Just Ruins

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Father Back Never Ruins Like Even

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

War Ending End President Left Ruins

We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Men Illusion Never Muse Ruins Marry

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Voice Smoking Doing Quit Ruins

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Success Confidence Reputation Ruins

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Good American Blues Days Ruins Many

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