A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
Mosquitos ruin the safari.
The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.