The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people. . . have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Don't let people with no life ruin yours.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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]
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you.
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.
For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.