The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.
Martin Yan

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
Arthur Murphy

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
Hugh MacDiarmid

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Ted Rall

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Ambrose Bierce

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
Stephen King

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
Leslie Caron

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli