Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.
People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small. ' It kind of ruins the mystique.
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Restraint never ruins one's health.
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!
It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.