Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
The rate of profit. . . is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.
It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.
Bad company ruins good morals.
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.