Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pogue

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Bill Murray

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Bruce Sterling

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Bruce Sterling

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

Juvenal

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Boman Irani

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Ambrose Bierce

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Doug Harvey

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

Elliott Abrams

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

Craig Thompson

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

I'm not going to ruin it for them. I understand that it is important.

Confucius

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

We can't and won't let this ruin our season,

Greg Kinnear

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

Martha Beck

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

Oscar Wilde

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

Jean Anouilh

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you!

David Lee

Anything that ruins our sovereignty is out of the question.

Christopher Lasch

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

Markus Zusak

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Leopold Von Ranke

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

Oscar Wilde

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Simon Van Booy

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.