Ruin Quotes

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
Rob Sheffield

Art, End, American

Success will ruin your life.
Tom Clancy

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
Darrell Royal

Bad, Golf, Enjoyment

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Career, Movie, Failed

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
George Steinbrenner

Baseball, Free, Dead

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
Mark Hoppus

Loyalty, Job, Person

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
Bill Toomey

Life, Reputation, Games

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Great, Freedom, Strong

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
John Thorn

Same, Old, Youth

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Charles de Secondat

Another, Nation, Knew

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Djuna Barnes

Time, Endurance, Easing

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
Gwen Moore

Health, Children, Child

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
Eric Ries

True, Real, Try

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

Life, Friends, Around

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster

Great, Friend, Belief

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
Helena Christensen

Confidence, Hard, Film

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Life, Woman, Second

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Time, Power, Forward

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
Michael Shannon

Life, Crazy, Feeling

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'
Gordon Smith

Best, Mother, Said

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
Melissa Bean

Life, Someone, Wrong

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.
Sigmar Gabriel

Good, Freedom, Against

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall

Nothing, Writing, Away

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.
Kelly Ripa

Time, Children, Around

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.
Chaz Bono

Life, Thought, Until

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney

Happiness, After, Looking

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Rachel Dratch

Funny, Someone, Try

As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.
John Walters

Parents, Understand, Young

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Leopold Von Ranke

Eyes, Before, Himself

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
King George V

After, Dead, Himself

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