Ruin Quotes

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.
Jung Chang

Children, Parents, Said

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
Amy Adams

Time, Girl, Parents

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

After, Dead, Himself

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

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
Garret Dillahunt

Love, Good, Bad

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.
Alexa Vega

Life, Parents, Someone

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.
Holly Valance

Down, Dinner, Sitting

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.
Paul Henderson

Life, Time, Philosophy

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
Pete Rozelle

Political, Football, Doubt

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.
Richard Parks Bland

Fight, Give, Body

I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know what's even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there.
Evan Peters

Put, Sometimes, Actually

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Ellen Muth

Father, Thought, Try

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. Hinton

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
Buenaventura Durruti

History, Before, Might

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.
Mindy McCready

Life, Change, Mom

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.
Josiah Warren

Insecurity, End, Serious

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
George Smathers

Friend, Leader, Between

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Friedrich List

Alone, Everything, Nation

I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair.
Tracee Ellis Ross

Thought, Try, Wanted

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.
Riccardo Muti

Party, Bother, Preparing

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy

Business, Giving, Study

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Samuel Hopkins

Cannot, Put, Situation

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.
Henry Cavill

Down, Pressure, Push

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
Robert Higgs

Life, After, Found

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Zimmermann

Great, Become, Fortune

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
Jeanette MacDonald

Good, Training, Place

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.
Michael Gough

Great, Lost, Battle

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
Ralph Chaplin

Work, Men, Reason

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Hugo Claus

Women, Lie, Spring

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
Edward Livingston

Suffering, Nation, Found

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