Top 181 Ruin Quotes

The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn’t look good and tends to ruin your hair.

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.

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.

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?

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.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are certain poses which enhances the look of the saree. Your back should be straight. If not, it could ruin the entire look.

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.

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.

I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship.

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.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements – and accelerated their ruin.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn’t totally ruin their educations, so that’s something.

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.

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.

It’s so rare when marketing and press doesn’t ruin your movie.

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.

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.

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.

I used to do drugs, but don’t tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

‘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.

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.

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.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

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.

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

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.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.

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.

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.

It takes one second to ruin a woman’s life.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

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.

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.

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

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.

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.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It’s the greatest problem.

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.

There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.

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

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.

Movies can’t ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

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.

I think if there aren’t Republicans standing up to Trump and showing America that he does not represent the Republican Party, then he has the potential to ruin the brand and turn it into toxic waste for generations.

We don’t want to be intimidated by hate, we don’t want hatred to ruin a positive event.

I had heard all the rumors and controversy swirling about the ‘In Utero’ recordings – there was a lot of, ‘Oh, the record label hates it,’ it was going to ruin the band, that kind of stuff.

I’m not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.

It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

And I always was getting fired and quitting jobs, so I was not going to ruin Public Storage, and I was excited about Public Storage because I knew eventually I could be one of those property manager people that had their own apartment on site. So I had these big dreams for Public Storage.

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

I’m so into the Boss and who he is, and I’ve read all his books, and I’ve watched every DVD, and I love every bit of his music: I would hate for, like, something to happen and ruin it for me. You know what I mean?

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.

If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain’t all that tragic. Just laugh!

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of ’em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.

One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.

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.

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.

If it’s a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

I hope I’m worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself – that I wouldn’t become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I’m not afraid of it. It’d be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks – Cars/’Candy-O,’ Ramones/’Road To Ruin,’ Cheap Trick/’Heaven Tonight’ and the first Devo record. I don’t remember skating without music.

I’ve never commercialized my music. I’ve seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.

It isn’t safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, even crime, and conscientious park personnel are demoralized.

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

You’re supposed to not like the ‘Austin Powers’ movies because people ruin the catchphrases. ‘Austin Powers’ is so funny.

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.

That’s a battle we are always fighting whenever we cut trailers or promos for films. We always wonder how much to say, and every filmmaker wants to say the minimum. You don’t want to reveal your film and ruin the viewing experience.

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

‘Shadow and Bone’ was the first. Siege and Storm’ was challenge and surprise. Ruin and Rising’ was the opportunity to see a story through to its end.

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.

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

‘Mean’ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I’ve never really spent money on or known how to wear coats, so I’ll ruin outfits by putting a coat on.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled – There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Gluten is so ridiculous. Don’t invite me to a dinner with someone who is gluten-free. I ruin the party.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn’t want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I often obsess so much about things that I can’t get done, that I ruin other things.

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

Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It’s poison.

Maybe in the future, you’ll be able to understand what I’m saying. I’m going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don’t want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.

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?

Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin.

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.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

While I’m confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

I’ll always protect what I’m working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

I’m all about living however you want, but if you make the decision to get married and have children, then you have an obligation to raise them in an environment that isn’t going to ruin them, warp their perception of the world, or close doors for them.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I’ve always embraced technology.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

You can’t play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it’s going to ruin the song.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

I have a pretty good track record of what I put my name on, so I don’t want to ruin that.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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.

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.

I will not let anyone dig up and ruin the peace of Chandigarh to facilitate movement of people from Mohali and Panchkula.

Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That’s unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people’s lives, and you ruin your own life.

I am a bit of a lad but don’t tell: it will ruin my image!

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.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people’s lives.

I had this project called ‘Ruin’ in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It’s kind of my ‘Star Wars’. I’m trying to achieve what ‘Star Wars’ did for me as a kid.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

I think Ruin and Rising’ is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something different to me.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He’s got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I’d fall off and ruin my career.

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

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Obama has created a new world where countries ignore the U.S. without consequence. It’s so bad that Saudi Arabia doesn’t even want to serve on the Security Council with the U.S. because it might ruin their reputation.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

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.

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

You show up at high school, there’s all these kids you don’t know, and you’re terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don’t want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

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.

I have been in auditions where – because – you’re always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

In the Championship you do take tackles where you think, ‘OK, he is putting one on me to prove a point.’ They want to try and get in your head, ruin your performance. It doesn’t bother me.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

People want me to say that I’m sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can’t tell what’s being said. It’s like you ruin it by reading.

I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don’t like to think about that. But I love the food.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don’t coach integrity violations. You fire them.

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.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

I would ruin my credibility if I put my stamp of approval of anything I didn’t do my due diligence on.

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

There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

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

Millions of Americans have bad credit because of mistakes from credit agencies, and it can ruin lives, stopping people from getting a job or owning a home or car.

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.

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.

The heroes of our youth grow old – ‘the boys of summer in their ruin’, in Dylan Thomas’s verse – yet we seem the same.

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

It happens to people. People ruin things they love! I’m sure the guy who played Jar Jar Binks loved ‘Star Wars.’

I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of ‘Ruin’ is essentially like the ‘Star Wars’ trench run.

Any ICO going forward that doesn’t use a ‘Ticketmaster-style’ queueing engine is clearly trying to ruin the ecosystem.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.

There’s no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don’t want to know – because why ruin a story?

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.

Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you’re good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.

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.

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn’t build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

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.