Ruined Quotes (page 7)

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• innocent
• modernize
• civilised

The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom! Wilkie Collins

• consider
• love
• chance

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine. Richard P. Feynman

• dark
• fire
• white

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. Charles Dickens

• eyes
• look
• ruining

Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel! Rudyard Kipling

• love
• spiritual
• to love

To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin C. S. Lewis

• lives
• ruin
• function

You can still function as a living ruin. Henry Rollins

• words
• god
• forgiveness

But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore? Joshua Chamberlain

• help
• slay
• helpful

Help means ruin and saving means slaying. J. R. R. Tolkien

• logic
• ruining
• pure

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• earth
• places
• earthly

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

• father
• clouds
• god

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that. Herman Hesse

• change
• tries
• changing

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. Lao Tzu

• time
• beautiful
• beauty

But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time. I am a vampire. My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy. Anne Rice

• wine
• she
• look

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

• experience
• impatient
• thy

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. Michel de Montaigne