Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
I remember that Michael Werner told me about a famous collector, and Michael set up an appointment for us to meet. This man looked around the room and at my pictures. Then he said, "Young man, why are you doing these horrible things? Look out the window. There are nice girls out there. It's springtime. Look at how beautiful the world can be. You'll ruin your health by smoking so much and doing such tortured things. "
Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
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.
Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make and execute the laws with rigour, than to guarding against encroachments upon the rights of the community. As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.
All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
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.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.