While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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.
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.
A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.
Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.