Top 181 Ruin Quotes

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.
Ana Navarro
We don’t want to be intimidated by hate, we don’t want hatred to ruin a positive event.
Jagmeet Singh
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.
Pat Smear
I’m not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.
Lisa Lampanelli
I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never af

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.
Sara Pascoe
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.
Shilpa Shinde
Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
Adam Rickitt
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.
Ari Lennox
No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
John Dillinger
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?
Jake Peavy
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
If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain’t all that tragic. Just laugh!
Ree Drummond
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac
Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of ’em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.
Ronnie Van Zant
One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.
Leon Bridges
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.
Montesquieu
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
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.
Marco Beltrami
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.
Giacomo Casanova
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.
Brendan Gleeson
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.
Priyamvada Natarajan
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings
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.
Jeff Ament
I’ve never commercialized my music. I’ve seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.
Rory Gallagher
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.
Michael Frome
After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
King George V
You’re supposed to not like the ‘Austin Powers’ movies because people ruin the catchphrases. ‘Austin Powers’ is so funny.
Neal Brennan
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
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.
Rajkumar Hirani
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
‘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.
Leigh Bardugo
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
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
‘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.
Taylor Swift
I’ve never really spent money on or known how to wear coats, so I’ll ruin outfits by putting a coat on.
Dawn O’Porter
The love of power, like the love of money, increases wi

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.
Samuel Adams
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.
Gustave Flaubert
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Gluten is so ridiculous. Don’t invite me to a dinner with someone who is gluten-free. I ruin the party.
Maye Musk
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.
Katy Perry
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.
Ernest Hemingway
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
I often obsess so much about things that I can’t get done, that I ruin other things.
Marilyn Manson
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It’s poison.
Jason Witten
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.
Washed Out
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
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.
Joseph Stiglitz
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
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.
Charles de Gaulle
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.
Chris Avellone
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
I’ll always protect what I’m working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.
Joss Whedon
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.
Beau Willimon
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
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.
Dan Bilzerian
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.
Charles Spurgeon
People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I’ve always embraced technology.
Chelsea Peretti