A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets. " Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!
Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.