A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
You can't think about basketball or you ruin your game. It is an instinctive game.
My album to me is something, but anyone who buys it, it's whatever it is to them. I don't like telling people what specifics are of the record, because that could ruin it as an experience for someone else.
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future--a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life--is gone. [p. 149]
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one. ' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!