I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.
A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
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]
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.
I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness
Don't let the idiots ruin your day.
An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.