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Ruin Quotes

Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks"
ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks Jerzy Kosinski
ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design Angela Carter
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. Homer
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Garrett Hardin
You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind. Did they break her mold or what, pal? Or...or did it self-destruct? Still, Laura. The one and the only. Such a plain name for a unique cutie. But perhaps my acuity is not without its problems. I ruin everything: a stupid story to be tapped out on my tomb's stone. I ruined even Laura. And an original ruin is rare. Just ask the archaeologist, "Egypt, again?" Just ask me, "Laura, again?" and... Vladimir Nabokov
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon..."
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. Jeffrey Eugenides
John Ford quote: "Alas, poor gentleman, He look’d not like the ruins of his..."
Alas, poor gentleman, He look’d not like the ruins of his youth But like the ruins of those ruins. John Ford
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. Derek Walcott
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. John Adams
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"Yes. I want to ruin you."Good," I said. "That's what I want too. Ernest Hemingway
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that... Andrew Jackson
Ben and I walked by the Forum, which, with the green grass still growing among the stones, seems to be a double ruin: a ruin of antiquity and a monument to the tender sentiments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers, for we see not only the ghosts of Romans here but the shades of ladies with parasols and men with beards and little children rolling hoops. John Cheever
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable. Thomas Hardy
Friendship is peace... I shall not speak ill of you or try to ruin you; you will not speak ill of me or try to ruin me. On the contrary, I shall give you what I have: my love, my sympathy, my concern, my compassion, my total support of your cause, and you will do the same for me. Sri Chinmoy

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