Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.
Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.
And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.
I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.
Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.