Top 181 Ruin Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ruin Quotes from famous people such as Astro Teller, Michael Gough, Lord Byron, Abraham Lincoln, Sigmar Gabriel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn’t look good and tends to ruin your hair.
Astro Teller
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
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham Lincoln
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
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
Al Jourgensen
The planet Mars – crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms – has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.
David Grinspoon
North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea’s creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
Barbara Demick
I believe in the American dream. I don’t want anyone to take advantage of it, and I don’t want anyone to ruin it, especially people who are not grateful to be here, who seemingly hate us and call us racists.
Jeanine Pirro
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.
John Tyler
When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.
Rod Lurie
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Djuna Barnes
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!
Joseph Addison
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn’t worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.
Jen Lancaster
For me, I love food. It’s my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It’s one of those things where, if you’re not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there’s a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.
Jon Favreau
I’ve had toiletries explode in my bag and go all over my clothes a few times but I wouldn’t let something like that ruin a holiday for me.
Gareth Thomas
I’m obsessed with make-up, but my top tip doesn’t actually involve any products. Beauty starts with glowing skin, and the way to ruin it is with dirty, clogged make-up brushes.
Madison Beer
There are certain poses which enhances the look of the saree. Your back should be straight. If not, it could ruin the entire look.
Madalsa Sharma
I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it’s very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.
Ray Stevens
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner
I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship.
Miranda Cosgrove
Trimming is tricky. If you trim the eyebrow too much, you ruin the arch. Eyebrow hair has a curl and when you brush and cut it, it’s easy to snip it too short.
Anastasia Soare
Paperwork will ruin any military force.
Chesty Puller
Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements – and accelerated their ruin.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn’t totally ruin their educations, so that’s something.
Greg Davies
I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It’s not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.
Li Shufu
I think the fans from the original ‘Teen Wolf’ tuned in expecting us to ruin the franchise, and I think that we’ve only heightened it. So we’ve brought ‘Teen Wolf’ back.
Colton Haynes
It’s so rare when marketing and press doesn’t ruin your movie.
Jeff Baena
The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for ‘allowing the BBC to ruin the English language.’ Naturally I felt terrible, as I had no idea either that it was happening or that I was responsible.
Sandi Toksvig
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
That’s the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it’s in your head. And then it’s just how little you ruin it.
Ricky Gervais
I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ru

I used to do drugs, but don’t tell anyone or it will ruin my image.
Courtney Love
‘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
I don’t sense that I am someone’s hero, though I’m happy when people like my work. I’ve learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I’ve seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.
Alan Arkin
You will get criticism throughout your career. All the best players have had it at some stage, and they haven’t let it ruin their careers. I won’t, either.
Jordan Henderson
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Frances Burney
When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.
Charlotte Rae
Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
Gayle Lynds
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
Maureen Forrester
I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.
Mary Leakey
It takes one second to ruin a woman’s life.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
Terry Bradshaw
We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won’t be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.
Alexander Lukashenko
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
Marcus Garvey
Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings
There’s something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
Rachel Nichols
Whenever we feel stressed out, that’s a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
Daniel Goleman
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
Chris Lilley
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It’s the greatest problem.
Boman Irani
This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it’s going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
Darell Hammond
There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.
Whitney Tilson
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
One sure way to ruin American credibility in the Arab world is to sit silently in Damascus and look like you’re part of the Assad show.
Richard Grenell
Movies can’t ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. Hinton
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
James Fenton