It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.

Never Try To Ruin Someone.. That's Bad Karma.. Let Them Ruin Themselves The Victory Is That Much Sweeter. You Reap What You Sow!

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

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